Applying an NVEF Word-Pair Identifier to the Chinese Syllable-to-Word Conversion Problem

Syllable-to-word (STW) conversion is important in Chinese phonetic input methods and speech recognition. There are two major problems in the STW conversion: (1) resolving the ambiguity caused by homonyms; (2) determining the word segmentation. This paper describes a noun-verb event-frame (NVEF) word identifier that can be used to solve these problems effectively. Our approach includes (a) an NVEF word-pair identifier and (b) other word identifiers for the non-NVEF portion. Our experiment showed that the NVEF word-pair identifier is able to achieve a 99.66% STW accuracy for the NVEF related portion, and by combining with other identifiers for the non-NVEF portion, the overall STW accuracy is 96.50%. The result of this study indicates that the NVEF knowledge is very powerful for the STW conversion. In fact, numerous cases requiring disambiguation in natural language processing fall into such "chicken-and-egg" situation. The NVEF knowledge can be employed as a general tool in s...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Jia-Lin Tsai, Wen-Lian Hsu
• Keywords: COLING 2002, COLING 2008, NVEF Word-pair Identifier, STW Accuracy, Word Identifiers