Assigned: November 7
Due: November 14.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Describe two examples of lexical ambiguity, two examples of syntactic ambiguity, and one example of semantic ambiguity in the first sentence. (As regards the semantic ambiguity: Of course the whole sentence is ironic in tone, but that's not the ambiguity I'm looking for.) Describe an example of anaphoric ambiguity in the second sentence.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
500 instances of N O N.Assume, finally, that we are using the following smoothing function for transitions:
300 instances of N O O N.
200 instances of O N O N.
Moreover, the corpus contains:
the word "fish" 100 times: 70 as N and 30 as O.
the word "can" 200 times: 20 as N and 180 as O.
the word "swim" 50 times: 5 as N and 45 as O.
Prob(TI | TI-2, TI-1) = 0.6 FreqC(TI | TI-2, TI-1) + 0.3 FreqC(TI | TI-1) + 0.1 FreqC(TI).Compare the probabilities of taggings "N O O" and "O O O" for the sentence "Fish can swim".