Using wikipedia links to construct word segmentation corpora

David Gabay, Ben Eliahu Ziv, Michael Elhadad

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Abstract

Tagged corpora are essential for evaluating and training natural language processing tools. The cost of constructing large enough manually tagged corpora is high, even when the annotation level is shallow. This article describes a simple method to automatically create a partially tagged corpus, using Wikipedia hyperlinks. The resulting corpus contains information about the correct segmentation of 523,599 non-consecutive words in 363,090 sentences. We used our method to construct a corpus of Modern Hebrew (which we have made available at http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/-nlpproj). The method can also be applied to other languages where word segmentation is difficult to determine, such as East and South-East Asian languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWikipedia and Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publicationAn Evolving Synergy - Papers from the 2008 AAAI Workshop
Pages61-63
Number of pages3
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2008
Event2008 AAAI Workshop - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: 13 Jul 200813 Jul 2008

Publication series

NameAAAI Workshop - Technical Report
VolumeWS-08-15

Conference

Conference2008 AAAI Workshop
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period13/07/0813/07/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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