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We explore some Web-based methods to differentiate strings of words corresponding to Spanish prepositional phrases that can perform either as a regular prepositional phrase or as idiomatic prepositional phrase. The type of these Spanish prepositional phrases is preposition-nominal phrase-preposition (P-NP-P), for example: por medio de ‘by means of’, a fin de ‘in order to’, con respecto a ‘with respect to’. We propose an unsupervised method that verifies linguistics properties of idiomatic prepositional phrases. Results are presented with the method applied to newspaper sentences.
Work partially supported by Mexican Government (CONACyT, SNI, COFAA, SIP-IPN).
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Galicia-Haro, S.N., Gelbukh, A. (2007). Web-Based Model for Disambiguation of Prepositional Phrase Usage. In: Gelbukh, A., Kuri Morales, Á.F. (eds) MICAI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4827. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76631-5_88
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