How bad is the problem of PP-attachment? A comparison of English, German and Swedish

EACL 2006 - 3rd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 81-88

  Volk, Martin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT RATE; CROSS LANGUAGES; HIGH RATE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE; SELECTION PROCEDURES; SWEDISHS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS; TREEBANKS;

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