An Adaptive Learning Algorithm for Task Adaptation in
Chinese Homophone Disambiguation
Hsin-Hsi Chen and Yue-Shi Lee
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Abstract
Task adaptation from a set of run-time feedback information has become increasingly crucial for corpus-based
natural language applications owing to the variant run-time environment. An order-based adaptive learning
algorithm is proposed in this paper for task adaptation to best-fit the run-time environment in the application of
Chinese homophone disambiguation. It shows which objects to be adjusted and how to adjust their probabilities.
The proposed technique is significantly simplified and robust. Experimental results demonstrate the effects of the
learning algorithm from generic domain to specific domain. This technique can be easily extended to varied language
models and corpus-based applications.