A deterministic finite state transducer is a fast device for analyzing strings. It takes O(n) time to analyze a string of length n. In this paper, an application of this technique...
We will report on one of the two tasks in the IREX (Information Retrieval and Extraction Exercise) project, an evaluation-based project for Information Retrieval and Information E...
Backward beam search for dependency analysis of Japanese is proposed. As dependencies normally go from left to right in Japanese, it is effective to analyze sentences backwards (f...
"Word" is difficult to define in the languages that do not exhibit explicit word boundary, such as Thai. Traditional methods on defining words for this kind of languages...
We present a new statistical language model based on a Colnbination of individual word language models. Each word model is built from an individual corpus which is formed by extra...