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LREC
2010
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Adapting Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Based on Short Units
In Chinese texts, words composed of single or multiple characters are not separated by spaces, unlike most western languages. Therefore Chinese word segmentation is considered an ...
Yiou Wang, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Jun'ichi Kazama, Can...
LREC
2010
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Arabic Part of Speech Tagging
Arabic is a morphologically rich language, which presents a challenge for part of speech tagging. In this paper, we compare two novel methods for POS tagging of Arabic without the...
Emad Mohamed, Sandra Kübler
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Bayesian Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
Words in Chinese text are not naturally separated by delimiters, which poses a challenge to standard machine translation (MT) systems. In MT, the widely used approach is to apply ...
Jia Xu, Jianfeng Gao, Kristina Toutanova, Hermann ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Using a Single Perceptron
For Chinese POS tagging, word segmentation is a preliminary step. To avoid error propagation and improve segmentation by utilizing POS information, segmentation and tagging can be...
Yue Zhang 0004, Stephen Clark
ACL
2007
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A Hybrid Approach to Word Segmentation and POS Tagging
In this paper, we present a hybrid method for word segmentation and POS tagging. The target languages are those in which word boundaries are ambiguous, such as Chinese and Japanes...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto
FLAIRS
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Combining Machine Learning with Linguistic Heuristics for Chinese Word Segmentation
This paper describes a hybrid model that combines machine learning with linguistic heuristics for integrating unknown word identification with Chinese word segmentation. The model...
Xiaofei Lu
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Vietnamese Word Segmentation
Word segmentation is the first and obligatory task for every NLP. For inflectional languages like English, French, Dutch,.. their word boundaries are simply assumed to be whitespa...
Dinh Dien, Hoang Kiem, Nguyen Van Toan
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modelling Lexical Stress
Human listeners use lexical stress for word segmentation and disambiguation. We look into using lexical stress for speech recognition by examining a Dutch-language corpus. We propo...
Rogier C. van Dalen, Pascal Wiggers, Léon J...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Lexicon-Constrained Character Model for Chinese Morphological Analysis
Abstract. This paper proposes a lexicon-constrained character model that combines both word and character features to solve complicated issues in Chinese morphological analysis. A ...
Yao Meng, Hao Yu, Fumihito Nishino
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Efficient Word Segmentation Technique for Historical and Degraded Machine-Printed Documents
Word segmentation is a crucial step for segmentation-free document analysis systems and is used for creating an index based on word matching. In this paper, we propose a novel met...
Michael Makridis, N. Nikolaou, Basilios Gatos