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Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency

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Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency
We present a language-independent and unsupervised algorithm for the segmentation of words into morphs. The algorithm is based on a new generative probabilistic model, which makes use of relevant prior information on the length and frequency distributions of morphs in a language. Our algorithm is shown to outperform two competing algorithms, when evaluated on data from a language with agglutinative morphology (Finnish), and to perform well also on English data.
Mathias Creutz
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where ACL
Authors Mathias Creutz
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