Ambiguity Resolution in Language Learning: Computational and Cognitive Models - Hardcover

Schütze, Hinrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575860759 ISBN 13: 9781575860756

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1997

Synopsis

This volume is concerned with how ambiguity and ambiguity resolution are learned, that is, with the acquisition of the different representations of ambiguous linguistic forms and the knowledge necessary for selecting among them in context. Schütze concentrates on how the acquisition of ambiguity is possible in principle and demonstrates that particular types of algorithms and learning architectures (such as unsupervised clustering and neural networks) can succeed at the task. Three types of lexical ambiguity are treated: ambiguity in syntactic categorisation, semantic categorisation, and verbal subcategorisation. The volume presents three different models of ambiguity acquisition: Tag Space, Word Space, and Subcat Learner, and addresses the importance of ambiguity in linguistic representation and its relevance for linguistic innateness.

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Book Description

This volume is concerned with how ambiguity and ambiguity resolution are learned, that is, with the acquisition of the different representations of ambiguous linguistic forms and the knowledge necessary for selecting among them in context.

Review

"The book is an enlightening investigation into the relationship between ambiguity resolution and language learning. It is unique in its focus on the disambiguation problem in leanrning, rather than in processing, in contrast to the main concern of much research in the NLP literature." I. Dan Melamed, Computational Linguistics

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575860759
• ISBN 13: 9781575860756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176