In this work, we argue that measures that have been shown to quantify the degree of semantic plausibility of phrases, as obtained from their compositionally-derived distributional seman- tic representations, can resolve syntactic am- biguities. We exploit this idea to choose the correct parsing of NPs (e.g., (live fish) trans- porter rather than live (fish transporter)). We show that our plausibility cues outperform a strong baseline and significantly improve performance when used in combination with state-of-the-art features.

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