Mixed language query disambiguation

Pascale Fung, Xiaohu Liu, Chi Shun Cheung

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Abstract

We propose a mixed language query disambiguation approach by using co-occurrence information from monolingual data only. A mixed language query consists of words in a primary language and a secondary language. Our method translates the query into monolingual queries in either language. Two novel features for disambiguation, namely contextual word voting and 1-best contextual word, are introduced and compared to a baseline feature, the nearest neighbor. Average query translation accuracy for the two features are 81.37% and 83.72%, compared to the baseline accuracy of 75.50%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)333-340
Number of pages8
JournalProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume1999-June
Publication statusPublished - 1999
Event37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1999 - College Park, United States
Duration: 20 Jun 199926 Jun 1999

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