... 1997) dealt with handling from 1 to 3 prepositional phrases in a sentence. The work dealt with preposi- tions in "group" sequences of VNP, VNPNP and VNPNPNP, where the prepositions attach ... et al., 1993) or chunks, and base NPs (Ramshaw and Marcus, 1995). The common thread between these ap- proaches and ours is to approximate full noun phrases or verb phrases by only parsing ... sitional phrases (e.g., "Chief of Staff"). For such cases, as well as for partitives, we con- sider these embedded prepositional phrases to be within the noun group's scope, and...