A major problem with (partially) free constituent order is to manifest preferences among structurally distinct parses of ambiguous sentences. In order to obtain scoring criteria a preferred constituent order can considerably support a best-first strategy. This work presents an experimentally evaluated model of preferred German constituent order in the middle field and its application for the implementation of a robust and eficient parsing strategy for spontaneous speech. This constituent order is used to guide the parallel LR(1)-parser to derive the preferred interpretation of ambiguous sentences.
Cite as: Kronenberg, S., Skuplik, K. (1999) Efficient sentence disambiguation by preferred constituent order. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999), 1999-2002, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-441
@inproceedings{kronenberg99_eurospeech,
author={S. Kronenberg and K. Skuplik},
title={{Efficient sentence disambiguation by preferred constituent order}},
year=1999,
booktitle={Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999)},
pages={1999--2002},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-441}
}