Prepositional Phrase Attachment Problem Revisited: How VERBNET Can Help

Dan Bailey, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Benjamin Susman, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Abstract

Resolving attachment ambiguities is a pervasive problem in syntactic analysis. We propose and investigate an approach to resolving prepositional phrase attachment that centers around the ways of incorporating semantic knowledge derived from the lexico-semantic ontologies such as VERBNET and WORDNET.