Disambiguation of Syntactic Structures Using the Strength of Association in Three Word Dependency Relations^∗

Abstract

We propose a syntactic disambiguation method that uses a measure of strengths of association that hold among three words in co-occurrence relations. Using the method, a disambiguation experiment in Japanese noun phrases with particle no is conducted. Its result is better than those of others and seems to show an effectiveness in resolving syntactic ambiguities appearing also in coordinated constructions, prepositional phrase attachments, and the like in English.