Prepositional Phrase Attachment
- We do PP attachment resolution as part of the cognitive model.
- However, we also solve this problem better than any system (that I'm
aware of) with neurons.
- Kailash Nadh did this work with me; this work started when I
was in Sheffield; it's the reason I'm doing neurons.
- A Neuro-computational Approach to PP Attachment Ambiguity Resolution
from Neural Computation (2012)
the paper in pdf
- First we solved it symbolically (statistically).
- Using WordNet, use the sym-sets to encode the 4-tuple (
verb, noun, noun, prep).
- Learn from the training set.
- Generalise to the test set.
- In neurons, we encoded the sym-set hierarchically as neurons
for each.
- Learning was Hebbian and correlatory.
- We got about 88% of the attachments.
