A Class-based Probabilistic approach to Structural Disambiguation

Knowledge of which words are able to fill particular argument slots of a predicate can be used for structural disambiguation. This paper describes a proposal for acquiring such knowledge, and in line with much of the recent work in this area, a probabilistic approach is taken. We develop a novel way of using a semantic hierarchy to estimate the probabilities, and demonstrate the general approach using a prepositional phrase attachment experiment.

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