Generalizing Case Frames Using a Thesaurus and the MDL Principle

dc.creatorLi, Hang
dc.creatorAbe, Naoki
dc.date1995-07-24
dc.date1996-03-14
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dc.descriptionWe address the problem of automatically acquiring case-frame patterns from large corpus data. In particular, we view this problem as the problem of estimating a (conditional) distribution over a partition of words, and propose a new generalization method based on the MDL (Minimum Description Length) principle. In order to assist with the efficiency, our method makes use of an existing thesaurus and restricts its attention on those partitions that are present as `cuts' in the thesaurus tree, thus reducing the generalization problem to that of estimating the `tree cut models' of the thesaurus. We then give an efficient algorithm which provably obtains the optimal tree cut model for the given frequency data, in the sense of MDL. We have used the case-frame patterns obtained using our method to resolve pp-attachment ambiguity.Our experimental results indicate that our method improves upon or is at least as effective as existing methods.
dc.description11 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, a revised version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9507011
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9507011
dc.identifierProc. of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 239-248, 1995.
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/147430
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleGeneralizing Case Frames Using a Thesaurus and the MDL Principle
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