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A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval
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Chinese is very different from alphabetical languages such as English, as there are no delimiters between Chinese words. So Chinese segmentation is an important step for most Chinese natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We propose a tightness continuum for Chinese semantic units. The...
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Fall 2023
There is essential information in the underlying structure of sentences and the relationships between words and phrases in natural language questions, and the use of this information has been extensively studied. This thesis studies the problem of word transfer from questions to answer passages...