This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collo-cational evidence, generating an eecient, eeective, and highly perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and utilizing only the single best dis-ambiguating evidence in a target context, the algorithm avoids th...

This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence, generating an efficient, effective, and highly perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and utilizing only the single best disambiguating evidence in a target context, the algorithm avoids t...

This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collo-cational evidence, generating an eecient, eeective, and highly perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and utilizing only the single best dis-ambiguating evidence in a target context, the algorithm avoids th...

One of the central problems in the study of human language processing is ambiguity resolution: how do people resolve the extremely pervasive ambiguity of the language they encounter? One possible answer to this question is suggested by experience-based models, which claim that people typically resolve ambiguities in a way which has been successful in the past. In order to determine the course o...

In the current study, we examined the role of intelligence and executive functions in the resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguity using an individual differences approach. Data were collected from 174 adolescents and adults who completed a battery of cognitive tests as well as a sentence comprehension task. The critical items for the comprehension task consisted of object/subject garden pat...

The article deals with the characteristics of noun phrases functioning in pre-position. Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way. The goal of this research was to analyze the way scholars interpret this linguistic structure today, as...

Parsing uncovers the hidden structure of linguistic input. In many applications involving natural language, the underlying predicate-argument structure of sentences can be useful. The syntactic analysis of language provides a means to explicitly discover the various predicate-argument dependencies that may exist in a sentence. In natural language processing, the syntactic analysis of natural la...

This qualitative descriptive research aims to explore the different meanings that can be derived from name of a study program, i.e., English for Business and Professional Communication, using syntactic approach. The approach employed was X-bar theory rules analyze possibilities structural meaning. results show three possible interpretations program’s name: (i) an language program with two speci...