A statistical approach to sense disambiguation in machine translation

Authors:
  • PBPeter F. Brown
    Peter F. Brown
  • SPStephen A. Della Pietra
    Stephen A. Della Pietra
  • VPVincent J. Della Pietra
    Vincent J. Della Pietra
  • RMRobert L. Mercer
    Robert L. Mercer
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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.