Disambiguating prepositional phrase attachment sites with sense information captured in contextualized distributional data

Resolving Language and Vision Ambiguities Together: Joint Segmentation & Prepositional Attachment Resolution in Captioned Scenes

We present an approach to simultaneously perform semantic segmentation and prepositional phrase attachment resolution for captioned images. Some ambiguities in language cannot be resolved without simultaneously reasoning…

Revisiting the Prepositional-Phrase Attachment Problem Using Explicit Commonsense Knowledge

We revisit the challenging problem of resolving prepositional-phrase (PP) attachment ambiguity. To date, proposed solutions are either rule-based, where explicit grammar rules direct how to resolve ambiguities; or statis…

Analyzing Human and Machine Performance In Resolving Ambiguous Spoken Sentences

Written sentences can be more ambiguous than spoken sentences. We investigate this difference for two different types of ambiguity: prepositional phrase (PP) attachment and sentences where the addition of commas changes …

Resolving Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities with Contextualized Word Embeddings

This paper applies contextualized word embedding models to a long-standing problem in the natural language parsing community, namely prepositional phrase attachment. Following past formulations of this problem, we use da…

A Knowledge-Intensive Model for Prepositional Phrase Attachment