DocumentCode
286281
Title
Multi-level disambiguation grammar inferred from English corpus, treebank, and dictionary
Author
Atwell, Eric ; Arnfield, S. ; Demetriou, George ; Hanlon, Steve ; Hughes, John ; Jost, Uwe ; Pocock, Rob ; Souter, Clive ; Ueberla, J.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput. Studies, Leeds Univ., UK
fYear
1993
fDate
22-23 Apr 1993
Firstpage
42614
Lastpage
42620
Abstract
It is shown that grammatical inference is applicable to natural language processing. Given the wide and complex range of structures appearing in an unrestricted natural language like English, full grammatical inference, yielding a comprehensive syntactic and semantic definition of English, is too much to hope for at present. Instead, the authors focus on techniques for dealing with ambiguity resolution by probabilistic ranking; this does not require a full formal Chomskyan grammar. They give a short overview of the different levels and methods being investigated at CCALAS for probabilistic ranking of candidates in ambiguous English input
Keywords
computational linguistics; grammars; inference mechanisms; natural languages; CCALAS; ambiguity resolution; ambiguous English input; full grammatical inference; natural language processing; probabilistic ranking; semantic definition; unrestricted natural language;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Grammatical Inference: Theory, Applications and Alternatives, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
Colchester
Type
conf
Filename
243145
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