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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation

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The problem of disambiguating PP attachments consists of determining if a PP is part of a noun phrase (as in He sees the room with books) or a verb phrase (as in He fills the room with books).

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    www.searchengineshowdown.com

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    Example borrowed from [79].

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    www.milenio.com.

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    Google API is a web service that uses the SOAP and WSDL standards to allow a program to directly query the Google search engine. More information can be found at api.google.com .

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    www.google.com.

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    http://clic.fil.ub.es. The TnT tagger trained with the CLiC-TALP corpus has a performance of over 92% [142].

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    Log-likelihood was calculated using the Ngram Statistics Package. See [8].

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    Cast-3LB is part of the 3LB project, financed by the Science and Technology Ministry of Spain. 3LB.

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    This is valid also for English. For the training set provided by Ratnaparkhi, the preposition of attaches to a noun in 99.5% of the 20,801 4-tuples.

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    We assume an equiprobable distribution, which is problematic. However, there are currently no comprehensive sense-tagged texts for Spanish from which to extract sense distributions.

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    S-EWN was developed jointly by the University of Barcelona (UB), the National University of Open Education (UNED), and the Polytechnic University of Cataluña (UPC), Spain.

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Computación (CIC), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico

    Alexander Gelbukh

  2. Centro de Investigación en Computación (CIC), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico

    Hiram Calvo

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Gelbukh, A., Calvo, H. (2018). Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation. In: Automatic Syntactic Analysis Based on Selectional Preferences. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 765. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74054-6_7

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