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Resolving Syntactic Category Ambiguities in Discourse Context: Probabilistic and Discourse Constraints

✍ Scribed by Julie E. Boland

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
221 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0749-596X

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✦ Synopsis

like duck. Syntactic category ambi-The author thanks Mary Beckman, Susan Garnsey, and guities are pervasive in English and many Mike Tanenhaus, and two anonymous reviewers for helpother languages, yet they have received much ful comments. Special thanks to Rick Lewis for several less attention than sense ambiguities or seninvaluable conservations and to Cornell Juliano for help tential structure ambiguities (though notable in obtaining probabilistic information from the Penn Treebank corpus.

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