Automatic Ambiguity Resolution in Natural Language Processing: An Empirical Approach

✍ Scribed by Alexander Franz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 163
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1171 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is an exciting time for Artificial Intelligence, and for Natural Language Processing in particular. Over the last five years or so, a newly revived spirit has gained prominence that promises to revitalize the whole field: the spirit of empiricism.
This book introduces a new approach to the important NLP issue of automatic ambiguity resolution, based on statistical models of text. This approach is compared with previous work and proved to yield higher accuracy for natural language analysis. An effective implementation strategy is also described, which is directly useful for natural language analysis. The book is noteworthy for demonstrating a new empirical approach to NLP; it is essential reading for researchers in natural language processing or computational linguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-10
Previous work on syntactic ambiguity resolution....Pages 11-33
Loglinear models for ambiguity resolution....Pages 35-49
Modeling new words....Pages 51-70
Part-of-speech ambiguity....Pages 71-96
Prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation....Pages 97-108
Conclusions....Pages 109-116

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation and Modeling; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law