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Xu, Ying.

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A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval./
Author:	Xu, Ying.
Description:	68 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, page: 2561.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International48-05.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MR60539
ISBN:	9780494605394

A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval.
Xu, Ying.

A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval. - 68 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, page: 2561.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2010.

Chinese is very different from alphabetical languages such as English, as there are no delimiters between Chinese words. So Chinese segmentation is an important step for most Chinese natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as machine translation (MT) and information retrieval (IR). Previous work has shown a non-monotonic relation between improvements in Chinese segmentation performance and performance on NLP tasks. Our research also suggests that different tasks need different criteria for Chinese segmentation.

ISBN: 9780494605394Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval.
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520 $a Chinese is very different from alphabetical languages such as English, as there are no delimiters between Chinese words. So Chinese segmentation is an important step for most Chinese natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as machine translation (MT) and information retrieval (IR). Previous work has shown a non-monotonic relation between improvements in Chinese segmentation performance and performance on NLP tasks. Our research also suggests that different tasks need different criteria for Chinese segmentation.
520 $a We propose a tightness continuum for Chinese semantic units which provides a more principled approach to the coupling of segmentation methods and NLP application tasks. The construction of the continuum is based on calculating the frequency distribution of units' segmentation patterns. For a Chinese character sequence of length n, 2 n-1 potential segmentation candidates exist. Based on this continuum, sequences can be dynamically segmented, and then that information can be exploited in a number of information retrieval tasks.
520 $a In order to show that our tightness continuum is useful for NLP tasks, we propose two methods to exploit the tightness continuum within IR systems. The first method refines the result of a general Chinese word segmenter: it combines units which are tightly connected according to statistical information but segmented by the former segmenter, and segments units which are not tight but previously treated as one unit. The second method embeds the tightness value into IR score functions according to our hypothesis that terms in tight queries are more likely to be consecutive in relevant documents than terms in loose queries. After analyzing the currently available Chinese test collections, we found that they are not suitable for evaluating the effects of Chinese segmentation, especially the segmentation of Chinese compounds, on IR. So we created a focused test collection. Experimental results show that our tightness measure is reasonable and does improve the performance of IR systems. As another consequence our experiments demonstrate a strong need for additional corpora for the investigation of Chinese IR.
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