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Acquisitions and applications of structure preference relations in Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2001

QIANG ZHOU
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084; e-mail: zhouq@s1000e.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn
FUJI REN
Affiliation:
Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Japan; e-mail: ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new ambiguity representation scheme; Structure Preference Relation (SPR), which consists of useful quantitative distribution information for ambiguous structures. Two automatic acquisition algorithms, the first acquired from a treebank, and the second acquired from raw texts, are introduced, and some experimental results which prove the availability of the algorithms are also given. Finally, we introduce some SPR applications in linguistics and natural language processing, such as preference-based parsing and the discovery of representative ambiguous structures, and propose some future research directions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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