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  <Title>RESOLVING A PRAGMATIC PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE ATTACHMENT AMBIGUITY</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A preliminary algorithm for processing highly ambiguous PPs has been worked out in \[7\]. The algorithm uses intonation \[9\], centering and word order information to construct and process event representations in a discourse model structured after \[4\]. The wider applicability of the two-part event formalism has not yet been tested. Nevertheless, one conclusion is that the value of resolving any structural ambiguity can only be measured in terms of the semantics of the structural Iormalism itsel\]. In the case of VP-PP vs.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> S-PP ambiguity, an NLP system must not idly wait for syntax to choose how a PP should pragmatically function. The traditional wisdom- find the meaning and do so efficientlyinstead suggests that more productive than demanding of syntax unreasonably diverse expressive powers is to search for direct linguistic correlates of pragmatic meaning that can be efficiently encoded in a dynamic pragmatic formalism.</Paragraph>
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