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Neural models with minimal feature engineering have achieved competitive performance against traditional methods for the task of Chinese word segmentation. However, both training and working procedures of the current neural models are…

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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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Most previous approaches to Chinese word segmentation formalize this problem as a character-based sequence labeling task where only contextual information within fixed sized local windows and simple interactions between adjacent tags can be…

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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…

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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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Named entity recognition (NER) in Chinese is essential but difficult because of the lack of natural delimiters. Therefore, Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) is usually considered as the first step for Chinese NER. However, models based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yuying Zhu , Guoxin Wang , Börje F. Karlsson

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

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, 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

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in hospital information systems contain patients' diagnosis and treatments, so EHRs are essential to clinical data mining. Of all the tasks in the mining process, Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Tingting Cai , Zhiyuan Ma , Hong Zheng , Yangming Zhou

This paper compares large language models (LLMs) and traditional natural language processing (NLP) tools for performing word segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, and named entity recognition (NER) on Chinese texts from 1900 to 1950.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhao Fang , Liang-Chun Wu , Xuening Kong , Spencer Dean Stewart

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

Word meaning, representation, and interpretation play fundamental roles in natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Many of the inherent difficulties in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lifeng Han , Gareth J. F. Jones , Alan F. Smeaton

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

Prior methods to text segmentation are mostly at token level. Despite the adequacy, this nature limits their full potential to capture the long-term dependencies among segments. In this work, we propose a novel framework that incrementally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Kaisheng Yao

Automatic analysis for modern Chinese has greatly improved the accuracy of text mining in related fields, but the study of ancient Chinese is still relatively rare. Ancient text division and lexical annotation are important parts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Pengyu Wang , Zhichen Ren

Princeton WordNet (PWN) is a lexicon-semantic network based on cognitive linguistics, which promotes the development of natural language processing. Based on PWN, five Chinese wordnets have been developed to solve the problems of syntax and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Mingchen Li , Zili Zhou , Yanna Wang

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

Benefiting from the strong ability of the pre-trained model, the research on Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) has made great progress in recent years. However, due to massive computation, large and complex models are incapable of empowering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yulan Hu , Yong Liu

Recent studies have shown effectiveness in using neural networks for Chinese word segmentation. However, these models rely on large-scale data and are less effective for low-resource datasets because of insufficient training data. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun