Unsupervised phonemic chinese word segmentation using adaptor grammars

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 528-536

  Johnson, Mark ^a   Demuth, Katherine ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE WORD SEGMENTATION; LINGUISTIC MODELS; NON-PARAMETRIC; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053393111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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