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Multi-criteria Chinese word segmentation (MCCWS) aims to exploit the relations among the multiple heterogeneous segmentation criteria and further improve the performance of each single criterion. Previous work usually regards MCCWS as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xipeng Qiu , Hengzhi Pei , Hang Yan , Xuanjing Huang

Multi-Criteria Chinese Word Segmentation (MCCWS) aims at finding word boundaries in a Chinese sentence composed of continuous characters while multiple segmentation criteria exist. The unified framework has been widely used in MCCWS and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhen Ke , Liang Shi , Erli Meng , Bin Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Xinchi Chen , Zhan Shi , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is a fundamental step of Chinese natural language processing. In this paper, we build a new toolkit, named PKUSEG, for multi-domain word segmentation. Unlike existing single-model toolkits, PKUSEG targets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ruixuan Luo , Jingjing Xu , Yi Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun

Different linguistic perspectives causes many diverse segmentation criteria for Chinese word segmentation (CWS). Most existing methods focus on improve the performance for each single criterion. However, it is interesting to exploit these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Xinchi Chen , Zhan Shi , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

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

Language segmentation consists in finding the boundaries where one language ends and another language begins in a text written in more than one language. This is important for all natural language processing tasks. The problem can be solved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-07 David Alfter

We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

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

Inspired by early research on exploring naturally annotated data for Chinese word segmentation (CWS), and also by recent research on integration of speech and text processing, this work for the first time proposes to mine word boundaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lei Zhang , Zhenghua Li , Shilin Zhou , Chen Gong , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai , Min Zhang

Chinese word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging are necessary tasks in terms of computational linguistics and application of natural language processing. Many re-searchers still debate the demand for Chinese word segmentation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Duc-Vu Nguyen , Linh-Bao Vo , Ngoc-Linh Tran , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

In constituency parsing, span-based decoding is an important direction. However, for Chinese sentences, because of their linguistic characteristics, it is necessary to utilize other models to perform word segmentation first, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Zhicheng Wang , Tianyu Shi , Cong Liu

Recent advancements in open vocabulary models, like CLIP, have notably advanced zero-shot classification and segmentation by utilizing natural language for class-specific embeddings. However, most research has focused on improving model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Cees G. M. Snoek

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve high-quality semantic grouping without human-labeled annotations. With the advent of self-supervised pre-training, various frameworks utilize the pre-trained features to train prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junho Kim , Byung-Kwan Lee , Yong Man Ro

A realistic Chinese word segmentation tool must adapt to textual variations with minimal training input and yet robust enough to yield reliable segmentation result for all variants. Various lexicon-driven approaches to Chinese segmentation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Chu-Ren Huang , Ting-Shuo Yo , Petr Simon , Shu-Kai Hsieh

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling machines to understand and interpret visual scenes at a pixel level. While traditional segmentation methods have achieved remarkable success, their generalization to diverse scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Philip Hughes , Larry Burns , Luke Adams

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yige Chen , Zelong Li , Cindy Zhang , Changbing Yang , Amandisa Cady , Ai Ka Lee , Zejiao Zeng , Eunkyul Leah Jo , Haihua Pan , Jungyeul Park

This study presents a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network approach to Japanese word segmentation (JWS). Previous studies on Chinese word segmentation (CWS) succeeded in using recurrent neural networks such as LSTM and gated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Yoshiaki Kitagawa , Mamoru Komachi

This paper presents a novel training method, Conditional Masked Language Modeling (CMLM), to effectively learn sentence representations on large scale unlabeled corpora. CMLM integrates sentence representation learning into MLM training by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ziyi Yang , Yinfei Yang , Daniel Cer , Jax Law , Eric Darve

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