The particular domain chosen here as a case study is the problem of restoring missing accents 1 to Spanish and French text. Because it requires the resolution of both semantic and syntactic ambiguity, and offers an objective ground truth for automatic evaluation, it is particularly well suited for demonstrating and testing the capabilities of the given algorithm. It is also a practical problem with immediate application. PROBLEM DESCRIPTION The general problem considered here is the resolution of lexical ambiguity, both syntactic and semantic, based on properties of the surrounding context. .
