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Context-Based Ambiguity Management for Natural Language Processing

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2001)

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We introduce a formal context mechanism, embedded into a description logics framework, which allows to uniformly represent and manage different kinds of natural language ambiguities as they occur in the course of text understanding. Multiple lexical, syntactic and semantic interpretations are separated by assigning each of these alternatives a single context space for local reasoning and incremental disambiguation.

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  1. Text Understanding Lab, Freiburg University, Werthmannplatz 1, D-79085, Freiburg, Germany

    Martin Romacker & Udo Hahn

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06533, Turkey

    Varol Akman

  2. Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet

  3. Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, 2251 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1003, USA

    Richmond Thomason

  4. Philosophy Department, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK

    Roger Young

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Romacker, M., Hahn, U. (2001). Context-Based Ambiguity Management for Natural Language Processing. In: Akman, V., Bouquet, P., Thomason, R., Young, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_14

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