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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…

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Fully supervised neural approaches have achieved significant progress in the task of Chinese word segmentation (CWS). Nevertheless, the performance of supervised models tends to drop dramatically when they are applied to out-of-domain data.…

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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

Recent researches show that pre-trained models (PTMs) are beneficial to Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS). However, PTMs used in previous works usually adopt language modeling as pre-training tasks, lacking task-specific prior segmentation…

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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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Deng Cai , Hai Zhao , Zhisong Zhang , Yuan Xin , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang

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…

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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…

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Named entity recognition, and other information extraction tasks, frequently use linguistic features such as part of speech tags or chunkings. For languages where word boundaries are not readily identified in text, word segmentation is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Nanyun Peng , Mark Dredze

The ambiguous annotation criteria lead to divergence of Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) datasets in various granularities. Multi-criteria Chinese word segmentation aims to capture various annotation criteria among datasets and leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Weipeng Huang , Xingyi Cheng , Kunlong Chen , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chu

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

Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is a fundamental task for Chinese language understanding. Recently, neural network-based models have attained superior performance in solving the in-domain CWS task. Last year, Bidirectional Encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Haiqin Yang

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

Taking greedy decoding algorithm as it should be, this work focuses on further strengthening the model itself for Chinese word segmentation (CWS), which results in an even more fast and more accurate CWS model. Our model consists of an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao

Recently, neural network models for natural language processing tasks have been increasingly focused on for their ability of alleviating the burden of manual feature engineering. However, the previous neural models cannot extract the…

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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

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

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

Chinese named entity recognition (CNER) is an important task in Chinese natural language processing field. However, CNER is very challenging since Chinese entity names are highly context-dependent. In addition, Chinese texts lack delimiters…

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

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

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks can be generalized into segmentation problem. In this paper, we combine semi-CRF with neural network to solve NLP segmentation tasks. Our model represents a segment both by composing the input…

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