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A rule-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation

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Eric Brill,

Philip ResnikAuthors Info & Claims

COLING '94: Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2

Pages 1198 - 1204

https://doi.org/10.3115/991250.991346

Published: 05 August 1994 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe a new corpus-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation, and present results comparing performance of this algorithm with other corpus-based approaches to this problem.

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August 1994

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Kyoto University, Japan
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