Resolving syntactic ambiguities with lexico-semantic patterns: an analogy-based approach

FEDERICI, STEFANO;Montemagni S;Pirrelli V.

1996-01-01

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Abstract

A system for the resolution of syntactic ambiguities is illustrated which operates on morpho-syntactically ambiguous subject-object assignments in Italian adn tries to find the most likely analysis on the basis of the evidence contained in a knowledge base of linguistic data automatically extracted from on-line resources. The system works on the basis of a set of straightforward analogy-based principles. Its performance on a substantial corpus of test data extracted from real texts is described.