Chinese Word Segmentation Task

A Chinese Word Segmentation Task is a word segmentation task that is restricted to Chinese text.

• AKA: Chinese Word Segmentation.
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• Example(s):
  • WMST("日文章魚怎麼說", Chinese) ⇒ [日文] [章魚] [怎麼] [說] (i.e. ~[Japanese] [octopus] [how to] [say]).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Chine Grapheme Segmentation Task: ⇒ [日][文][章][魚][怎][麼][說] (i.e. ~[日][文][章][魚][怎][麼][說] (i.e. ~[day] [text] [chapter] [fish] [how] [what] [say]).
  • Japanese Word Segmentation Task.
  • German Word Segmentation Task.
  • English Word Segmentation Task.
• See: Morphological Segmentation.

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References

2009

• (Song & Sarkar, 2009) ⇒ Dong Song, and Anoop Sarkar. (2009). “Training Global Linear Models for Chinese Word Segmentation.” In: Proceedings of the 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2009).

2008

• (Song, 2008) ⇒ Dong Song. (2008). “Experimental Comparison of Discriminative Learning Approaches for Chinese Word Segmentation." M.Sc. Thesis, August 2008.

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