Mixed language query disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • Pascale Fung;LIU Xiaohu;CHEUNG Chi Shun

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Science and Technology, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong;University of Science and Technology, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong;University of Science and Technology, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1999

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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%.