A statistical approach to sense disambiguation in machine translation

Authors:
Peter F. Brown;Stephen A. Della Pietra;Vincent J. Della Pietra;Robert L. Mercer
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Year:
1991

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Abstract

We describe a statistical technique for assigning senses to words. An instance of a word is assigned a sense by asking a question about the context in which the word appears. The question is constructed to have high mutual information with the word's translations.