Adversarial Multi-Criteria Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation

Xinchi Chen, Zhan Shi, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang


Abstract
Different linguistic perspectives causes many diverse segmentation criteria for Chinese word segmentation (CWS). Most existing methods focus on improve the performance for each single criterion. However, it is interesting to exploit these different criteria and mining their common underlying knowledge. In this paper, we propose adversarial multi-criteria learning for CWS by integrating shared knowledge from multiple heterogeneous segmentation criteria. Experiments on eight corpora with heterogeneous segmentation criteria show that the performance of each corpus obtains a significant improvement, compared to single-criterion learning. Source codes of this paper are available on Github.
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P17-1110
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Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1193–1203
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https://aclanthology.org/P17-1110
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P17-1110
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Xinchi Chen, Zhan Shi, Xipeng Qiu, and Xuanjing Huang. 2017. Adversarial Multi-Criteria Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1193–1203, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Adversarial Multi-Criteria Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation (Chen et al., ACL 2017)
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