Towards a System Architecture for Integrating Cross-modal Context in Syntactic Disambiguation

Patrick McCrae, Wolfgang Menzel

2007

Abstract

Most natural language utterances are inherently ambiguous, which results in semantic under specification. Yet, despite the omnipresence of ambiguity, human communication still succeeds in most cases and even displays a remarkable robustness – quite in contrast to the majority of natural language applications today. The reason for this is that in processing an ambiguous utterance humans also integrate information from sources other than the utterance itself and thus have access to additional knowledge to enrich the semantic specification that guides disambiguation. One important such source of additional semantic knowledge in humans is sensory input from cross-modal perception. In this paper we describe a system architecture motivated by effects during human sentence processing which permits to study the integration of cross-modal context knowledge in syntactic parsing. We hypothesize that integrating cross-modal context into syntactic constraint dependency parsing will significantly and substantially improve the accuracy of structural ambiguity resolution.

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McCrae P. and Menzel W. (2007). Towards a System Architecture for Integrating Cross-modal Context in Syntactic Disambiguation . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-97-9, pages 228-237. DOI: 10.5220/0002430602280237


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@conference{nlpcs07,
author={Patrick McCrae and Wolfgang Menzel},
title={Towards a System Architecture for Integrating Cross-modal Context in Syntactic Disambiguation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={228-237},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002430602280237},
isbn={978-972-8865-97-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - Towards a System Architecture for Integrating Cross-modal Context in Syntactic Disambiguation
SN - 978-972-8865-97-9
AU - McCrae P.
AU - Menzel W.
PY - 2007
SP - 228
EP - 237
DO - 10.5220/0002430602280237