Using a Distributional Thesaurus to Resolve Coordination Ambiguities
Francis Chantree, Adam Kilgarriff, Anne N. De Roeck, Alistair Willis · Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) · 2005
We present a novel method for resolving coordination ambiguities. This type of ambiguity is one of the most pervasive and challenging. We test the hypothesis that the most likely reading of a coordination ambiguity can be indicated by the distri-butional similarity of terms. Our experiments show that words or phrases in a coordination which have distributional similarity also tend to have "coordination first" characteristics.