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Coping with Different Types of Ambiguity Using a Uniform Context Handling Mechanism

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB 2000)

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We introduce a uniform context mechanism which is able to adequately represent and manage di.erent forms of ambiguities as they occur in the course of text understanding. Different lexical, syntactic and semantic interpretations are clearly separated by assigning each alternative a single context space for local reasoning. The mechanism we propose directly supports the task of disambiguation at all levels of text analysis, since it also incorporates constraints from the discourse context, as text understanding proceeds.

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  1. Text Knowledge Engineering Lab, CLIF Group, Freiburg University, Freiburg

    Martin Romacker & Udo Hahn

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  1. PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, 45 av.des Etats-Unis, 78035, Paris, France

    Mokrane Bouzeghoub  & Zoubida Kedad  & 

  2. CNAM, CEDRIC Laboratory, 292 rue Saint-Martin, 75003, Paris

    Elisabeth Métais

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Romacker, M., Hahn, U. (2001). Coping with Different Types of Ambiguity Using a Uniform Context Handling Mechanism. In: Bouzeghoub, M., Kedad, Z., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1959. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45399-7_4

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