Using a Distributional Thesaurus to Resolve Coordination Ambiguities

Chantree, Francis; Kilgarriff, Adam; De Roeck, Anne and Willis, Alistair (2005). Using a Distributional Thesaurus to Resolve Coordination Ambiguities. Technical Report 2005/02; Department of Computing, The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00016036

Abstract

We present a novel method for resolving coordination ambiguities. This type of ambiguity is one of the most pervasive and challenging. We test the hypothesis that the most likely reading of a coordination ambiguity can be indicated by the distri-butional similarity of terms. Our experiments show that words or phrases in a coordination which have distributional similarity also tend to have "coordination first" characteristics.

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