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CNL Lunch Talks

Douglas Roland

Modeling Ambiguity Resolution

Thursday April 29th, 2004, 12:30 PM, 3416 Marie Mount Hall

 

There has been recent discussion about the disconnect between the prediction of corpus counts with respect to prediction of attachment preference in ambiguous cases, and actual experimental results. We try to resolve this seeming paradox by taking a closer look at the information provided by context in a corpus.