Boundary-based MWE segmentation with text partitioning

Jake Williams


Abstract
This submission describes the development of a fine-grained, text-chunking algorithm for the task of comprehensive MWE segmentation. This task notably focuses on the identification of colloquial and idiomatic language. The submission also includes a thorough model evaluation in the context of two recent shared tasks, spanning 19 different languages and many text domains, including noisy, user-generated text. Evaluations exhibit the presented model as the best overall for purposes of MWE segmentation, and open-source software is released with the submission (although links are withheld for purposes of anonymity). Additionally, the authors acknowledge the existence of a pre-print document on arxiv.org, which should be avoided to maintain anonymity in review.
Anthology ID:
W17-4401
Volume:
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Leon Derczynski, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin
Venue:
WNUT
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–10
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-4401
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-4401
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Cite (ACL):
Jake Williams. 2017. Boundary-based MWE segmentation with text partitioning. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 1–10, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Boundary-based MWE segmentation with text partitioning (Williams, WNUT 2017)
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