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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

We present an iterative procedure to build a Chinese language model (LM). We segment Chinese text into words based on a word-based Chinese language model. However, the construction of a Chinese LM itself requires word boundaries. To get out…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Xiaoqiang Luo , Salim Roukos

Most previous approaches to Chinese word segmentation can be roughly classified into character-based and word-based methods. The former regards this task as a sequence-labeling problem, while the latter directly segments character sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Zhiqing Sun , Gehui Shen , Zhihong Deng

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

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

Chinese is a logographic writing system, and the shape of Chinese characters contain rich syntactic and semantic information. In this paper, we propose a model to learn Chinese word embeddings via three-level composition: (1) a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Chinese short text matching is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Existing approaches usually take Chinese characters or words as input tokens. They have two limitations: 1) Some Chinese words are polysemous, and semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Boer Lyu , Lu Chen , Su Zhu , Kai Yu

LSTM based language models are an important part of modern LVCSR systems as they significantly improve performance over traditional backoff language models. Incorporating them efficiently into decoding has been notoriously difficult. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Eugen Beck , Wei Zhou , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Recently, Chinese word segmentation (CWS) methods using neural networks have made impressive progress. Most of them regard the CWS as a sequence labeling problem which construct models based on local features rather than considering global…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xuewen Shi , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yuhang Guo , Xiaochi Wei , Yi-Kun Tang

Scene text recognition (STR) methods have demonstrated their excellent capability in English text images. However, due to the complex inner structures of Chinese and the extensive character categories, it poses challenges for recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qilong Li , Chongsheng Zhang

In recent years, neural networks have proven to be effective in Chinese word segmentation. However, this promising performance relies on large-scale training data. Neural networks with conventional architectures cannot achieve the desired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun , Sujian Li , Xiaoyan Cai , Bingzhen Wei

Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is an important task for Chinese NLP. Recently, many neural network based methods have been proposed for CWS. However, these methods require a large number of labeled sentences for model training, and usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Junxin Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Existing methods for CWS usually rely on a large number of labeled sentences to train word segmentation models, which are expensive and time-consuming to annotate. Luckily, the unlabeled data is usually easy to collect and many high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Junxin Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

This work proposes a simple training-free prompt-free approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) for the Chinese spelling correction (CSC) task, which is totally different from all previous CSC approaches. The key idea is to use an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Houquan Zhou , Zhenghua Li , Bo Zhang , Chen Li , Shaopeng Lai , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Min Zhang

Classifiers are an important and defining feature of the Chinese language, and their correct prediction is key to numerous educational applications. Yet, whether the most popular Large Language Models (LLMs) possess proper knowledge the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ziqi Zhang , Jianfei Ma , Emmanuele Chersoni , Jieshun You , Zhaoxin Feng

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

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…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Richard Sproat , Chilin Shih , William Gale , Nancy Chang

We propose Nested LSTMs (NLSTM), a novel RNN architecture with multiple levels of memory. Nested LSTMs add depth to LSTMs via nesting as opposed to stacking. The value of a memory cell in an NLSTM is computed by an LSTM cell, which has its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Joel Ruben Antony Moniz , David Krueger

We propose a method of stacking multiple long short-term memory (LSTM) layers for modeling sentences. In contrast to the conventional stacked LSTMs where only hidden states are fed as input to the next layer, the suggested architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jihun Choi , Taeuk Kim , Sang-goo Lee

The task of linearization is to find a grammatical order given a set of words. Traditional models use statistical methods. Syntactic linearization systems, which generate a sentence along with its syntactic tree, have shown state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Linfeng Song , Yue Zhang , Daniel Gildea