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mischunk en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + chunk.

Meanings

1. To chunk incorrectly.
   • On the other hand, some PP-attachments are multiply ambiguous (they have more than two possible attachment sites) or occur fronted in a sentence-initial position, or a participant in the PP-relation is mistagged or mischunked. 2003, G Schneider, “Learning to disambiguate syntactic relations”, in Computational Linguistics, volume 17, number 5:
   • There is no longer any temptation to mischunk the text. 1997, Rebecca E. Burnett, Technical Communication, page 216:
   • We will present a number of examples suggesting this type of 'mischunking' below. 1993, Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens, The Bilingual Lexicon, page 204:

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