Chantree, Francis; Willis, Alistair; Kilgarriff, Adam and De Roeck, Anne
(2007).
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Abstract
In this paper we present heuristics for resolving coordination ambiguities. We test the hypothesis that the most likely reading of a coordination can be predicted using word distribution information from a generic corpus. Our heuristics are based upon the relative frequency of the coordination in the corpus, the distributional similarity of the coordinated words, and the collocation frequency between the coordinated words and their modifiers. These heuristics have varying but useful predictive power. They also take into account our view that many ambiguities cannot be effectively disambiguated, since human perceptions vary widely.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2007 John Benjamins |
| Extra Information: | Selected papers from RANLP 2005 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Other Departments > Vice-Chancellor's Office Other Departments |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 19240 |
| Depositing User: | Alistair Willis |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2009 11:04 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2016 12:18 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/19240 |
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