Best Analysis Selection in Inflectional Languages

• Authors: HORÁK Aleš; SMRŽ Pavel
• Year of publication: 2002
• Type: Article in Proceedings
• Conference: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Web: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/publications/coling2002_hales_smrz/
• Field: Use of computers, robotics and its application
• Keywords: parsing
• Description: Ambiguity is the fundamental property of natural language. Perhaps, the most burdensome case of ambiguity manifests itself on the syntactic level of analysis. In order to face up to the high number of obtained derivation trees, this paper describes several techniques for evaluation of the figures of merit, which define a sort order on parsing trees. The presented methods are based on language specific features of synthetical languages and they improve the results of simple stochastic approaches.

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