Unsupervised segmentation of Chinese text by use of branching entropy

  • Authors:
  • Zhihui Jin;Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tokyo;University of Tokyo

  • Venue:
  • COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose an unsupervised segmentation method based on an assumption about language data: that the increasing point of entropy of successive characters is the location of a word boundary. A large-scale experiment was conducted by using 200 MB of unsegmented training data and 1 MB of test data, and precision of 90% was attained with recall being around 80%. Moreover, we found that the precision was stable at around 90% independently of the learning data size.