Structural Ambiguity and Conceptual Relations

Summary

This work investigated an extension of the lexical association strategy to make use of noun class information, thus permitting a disambiguation strategy to take more information into account, and found that the problem lies not in the nounclass information, but rather in the multiplicity of classes available for each noun in the absence of sense disambigsuation.

Keywords

Computer science, Noun phrase, Natural language processing, Ambiguity, Noun

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