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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised phonemic Chinese word segmentation using Adaptor Grammars
Adaptor grammars are a framework for expressing and performing inference over a variety of non-parametric linguistic models. These models currently provide state-of-the-art perfor...
Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth
EMNLP
2010
13 years 10 months ago
An Efficient Algorithm for Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Branching Entropy and MDL
This paper proposes a fast and simple unsupervised word segmentation algorithm that utilizes the local predictability of adjacent character sequences, while searching for a leaste...
Valentin Zhikov, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Hierarchical EM Approach to Word Segmentation
We propose a simple two-level hierarchical probability model for unsupervised word segmentation. By treating words as strings composed of morphemes/phonemes which are themselves c...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans