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International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA'07)
Semantic Analysis of 'to'
Kolkata, India
March 05-March 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2770-1
Ashish Francis Almeida, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Rajat Kumar Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
?To? is one of the most common lexemes in English (as found in 34% of the sentences in the Penn Tree Bank corpus). This paper describes the analysis of the sentences involving ?to?. ?To? poses problems at lexical, syntactic and semantic level, as we need to resolve whether the phrase which is fronted by ?to? is a prepositional phrase (PP) or an infinitival clause which is a kind of Inflectional Phrase (IP). In case of PP, we need to locate the attachment site for it and assign the semantic relation. In case of IP, we need to resolve the empty pronominal in addition to the attachment resolution - a task essential to make the semantic analysis complete. We achieve an accuracy of about 80% in the above tasks.
Citation:
Ashish Francis Almeida, Rajat Kumar Mohanty, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, "Semantic Analysis of 'to'," iccta, pp.441-445, International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA'07), 2007
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