Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense Disambiguation

Dirk Hovy,  Ashish Vaswani,  Stephen Tratz,  David Chiang,  Eduard Hovy
USC's Information Sciences Institute


Abstract

We present a preliminary study on unsupervised preposition sense disambiguation (PSD), comparing different models and training techniques (EM, MAP-EM with L0 norm, Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling). To our knowledge, this is the first attempt at unsupervised preposition sense disambiguation. Our best accuracy reaches 56%, a significant improvement (at p < .001) of 16% over the most-frequent-sense baseline.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-2056.pdf