TY - JOUR T1 - Applications of Word Sense Disambiguation in Mixed Language Information Retrieval AU - , M. Sundara Rajan AU - , S.P. Rajagopalan JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 6 IS - 11 SP - 1187 EP - 1191 PY - 2007 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2007.1187.1191 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2007.1187.1191 KW - Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) KW -mixed language query KW -voting KW -weighting KW -pruning KW -baseline AB - 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 2 features improved considerably compared to the baseline accuracy. ER -