Masao Ideuchi


2022

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A Japanese Corpus of Many Specialized Domains for Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Shohei Higashiyama | Masao Ideuchi | Masao Utiyama | Yoshiaki Oida | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems

2019

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Incorporating Word Attention into Character-Based Word Segmentation
Shohei Higashiyama | Masao Utiyama | Eiichiro Sumita | Masao Ideuchi | Yoshiaki Oida | Yohei Sakamoto | Isaac Okada
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)

Neural network models have been actively applied to word segmentation, especially Chinese, because of the ability to minimize the effort in feature engineering. Typical segmentation models are categorized as character-based, for conducting exact inference, or word-based, for utilizing word-level information. We propose a character-based model utilizing word information to leverage the advantages of both types of models. Our model learns the importance of multiple candidate words for a character on the basis of an attention mechanism, and makes use of it for segmentation decisions. The experimental results show that our model achieves better performance than the state-of-the-art models on both Japanese and Chinese benchmark datasets.