UNSUPERVISED WORD SEGMENTATION BASED ON WORD INFLUENCE

Ruohao Yan, Huaping Zhang*, Wushour Silamu, Askar Hamdulla

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Word segmentation task is the cornerstone of text processing. There are 7111 languages worldwide, most of which are low-resource languages. This paper attempts to solve the problem of multilingual unsupervised word segmentation using common points between languages without tagged corpus. We find that words are only a relationship between phrases and non-phrases in each language, and the frequency of their occurrence obeys the normal distribution. Based on the objective law of language and pre-training language model, this paper defines the concept of Word Influence and designs its calculation formula, and loss function. Combined with the fine-tuning word segmentation task, a multilingual unsupervised word segmentation model was proposed. In order to apply to multiple languages, the model’s key parameters can be learned independently. Its validity and advancement have been proved on Chinese, Japanese, and English data sets. Finally, we discuss the challenges of word segmentation in the pre-trained language model environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728163277
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023 - Rhodes Island, Greece
Duration: 4 Jun 202310 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes Island
Period4/06/2310/06/23

Keywords

  • Multilingual
  • Pre-trained model
  • Unsupervised
  • Word Influence
  • Word Segmentation

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