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Most of the Chinese pre-trained models adopt characters as basic units for downstream tasks. However, these models ignore the information carried by words and thus lead to the loss of some important semantics. In this paper, we propose a…

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Neural network has become the dominant method for Chinese word segmentation. Most existing models cast the task as sequence labeling, using BiLSTM-CRF for representing the input and making output predictions. Recently, attention-based…

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Chinese word segmentation is necessary to provide word-level information for Chinese named entity recognition (NER) systems. However, segmentation error propagation is a challenge for Chinese NER while processing colloquial data like social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Shengbin Jia , Ling Ding , Xiaojun Chen , Shijia E , Yang Xiang

The performance of the Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) systems has gradually reached a plateau with the rapid development of deep neural networks, especially the successful use of large pre-trained models. In this paper, we take stock of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jinlan Fu , Pengfei Liu , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Chinese word segmentation is a foundational task in natural language processing (NLP), with far-reaching effects on syntactic analysis. Unlike alphabetic languages like English, Chinese lacks explicit word boundaries, making segmentation…

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Intent classification has been widely researched on English data with deep learning approaches that are based on neural networks and word embeddings. The challenge for Chinese intent classification stems from the fact that, unlike English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ruixi Lin , Charles Costello , Charles Jankowski

Multi-criteria Chinese word segmentation is a promising but challenging task, which exploits several different segmentation criteria and mines their common underlying knowledge. In this paper, we propose a flexible multi-criteria learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Jingjing Gong , Xinchi Chen , Tao Gui , Xipeng Qiu

In recent years, deep learning has achieved significant success in the Chinese word segmentation (CWS) task. Most of these methods improve the performance of CWS by leveraging external information, e.g., words, sub-words, syntax. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xuemei Tang , Jun Wang , Qi Su

We present a stochastic finite-state model for segmenting Chinese text into dictionary entries and productively derived words, and providing pronunciations for these words; the method incorporates a class-based model in its treatment of…

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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Si Li , Nianwen Xue

Recurrent neural network(RNN) has been broadly applied to natural language processing(NLP) problems. This kind of neural network is designed for modeling sequential data and has been testified to be quite efficient in sequential tagging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Yushi Yao , Zheng Huang

Named entity recognition is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing, especially for informal and noisy social media text. Chinese word boundaries are also entity boundaries, therefore, named entity recognition for Chinese text can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Zhaoheng Gong , Ping Chen , Jiang Zhou

Previous traditional approaches to unsupervised Chinese word segmentation (CWS) can be roughly classified into discriminative and generative models. The former uses the carefully designed goodness measures for candidate segmentation, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Zhiqing Sun , Zhi-Hong Deng

Word segmentation is a fundamental pre-processing step for Thai Natural Language Processing. The current off-the-shelf solutions are not benchmarked consistently, so it is difficult to compare their trade-offs. We conducted a speed and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Pattarawat Chormai , Ponrawee Prasertsom , Attapol Rutherford

Recent studies on direct speech translation show continuous improvements by means of data augmentation techniques and bigger deep learning models. While these methods are helping to close the gap between this new approach and the more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

In this paper, we propose a joint algorithm for the word segmentation on Chinese social media. Previous work mainly focus on word segmentation for plain Chinese text, in order to develop a Chinese social media processing tool, we need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Yao Yushi , Huang Zheng

This paper reviews the development of Chinese word segmentation (CWS) in the most recent decade, 2007-2017. Special attention was paid to the deep learning technologies that has already permeated into most areas of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Hai Zhao , Deng Cai , Changning Huang , Chunyu Kit

Chinese word segmentation is especially fragile in non-standard text, where language learner errors and other character-level divergences disrupt the word boundaries assumed by downstream annotation and evaluation. This paper formulates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Lusha Wang , Yuchen Li , Su Yuan , Jungyeul Park

In this article I proposed a new model to achieve Chinese word segmentation(CWS),which may have the potentiality to apply in other domains in the future.It is a new thinking in CWS compared to previous works,to consider it as a clustering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yuze Zhao

The prevalent approaches of Chinese word segmentation task almost rely on the Bi-LSTM neural network. However, the methods based the Bi-LSTM have some inherent drawbacks: hard to parallel computing, little efficient in applying the Dropout…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Wei Jiang , Yan Tang