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DAG-based Long Short-Term Memory for Neural Word Segmentation

Computation and Language 2017-07-04 v1

Abstract

Neural word segmentation has attracted more and more research interests for its ability to alleviate the effort of feature engineering and utilize the external resource by the pre-trained character or word embeddings. In this paper, we propose a new neural model to incorporate the word-level information for Chinese word segmentation. Unlike the previous word-based models, our model still adopts the framework of character-based sequence labeling, which has advantages on both effectiveness and efficiency at the inference stage. To utilize the word-level information, we also propose a new long short-term memory (LSTM) architecture over directed acyclic graph (DAG). Experimental results demonstrate that our model leads to better performances than the baseline models.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00248,
  title  = {DAG-based Long Short-Term Memory for Neural Word Segmentation},
  author = {Xinchi Chen and Zhan Shi and Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00248},
  year   = {2017}
}
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