1991 WordSenseDisambigUsingStatMethods
- (Brown et al., 1991) ⇒ Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, and Robert L. Mercer. (1991). “Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Methods.” In: Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 1991) doi:10.3115/981344.981378
Subject Headings: Word Sense Disambiguation Task.
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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 translation of that instance in another language. When we incorporated this method of assigning senses into our statistical machine translation system, the error rate of the system decreased by thirteen percent.
A Pilot Experiment
We used the flip-flop algorithm in a pilot experiment in which we assigned two senses to each of the 500 most common English words and two senses to each of the 200 most common French words.
Future Work
Since the entropy of the translation of a common word can be as high as five bits, there is reason to hope that using more senses will further improve the performance of our system.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 1991 WordSenseDisambigUsingStatMethods | Peter F. Brown Robert L. Mercer Vincent J. Della Pietra Stephen A. Della Pietra | Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Methods | Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics | http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P91/P91-1034.pdf | 10.3115/981344.981378 | 1991 |