ThaiLMCut: Unsupervised Pretraining for Thai Word Segmentation

Suteera Seeha, Ivan Bilan, Liliana Mamani Sanchez, Johannes Huber, Michael Matuschek, Hinrich Schütze

Abstract
We propose ThaiLMCut, a semi-supervised approach for Thai word segmentation which utilizes a bi-directional character language model (LM) as a way to leverage useful linguistic knowledge from unlabeled data. After the language model is trained on substantial unlabeled corpora, the weights of its embedding and recurrent layers are transferred to a supervised word segmentation model which continues fine-tuning them on a word segmentation task. Our experimental results demonstrate that applying the LM always leads to a performance gain, especially when the amount of labeled data is small. In such cases, the F1 Score increased by up to 2.02%. Even on abig labeled dataset, a small improvement gain can still be obtained. The approach has also shown to be very beneficial for out-of-domain settings with a gain in F1 Score of up to 3.13%. Finally, we show that ThaiLMCut can outperform other open source state-of-the-art models achieving an F1 Score of 98.78% on the standard benchmark, InterBEST2009.
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2020.lrec-1.858
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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6947–6957
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English
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Suteera Seeha, Ivan Bilan, Liliana Mamani Sanchez, Johannes Huber, Michael Matuschek, and Hinrich Schütze. 2020. ThaiLMCut: Unsupervised Pretraining for Thai Word Segmentation. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6947–6957, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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ThaiLMCut: Unsupervised Pretraining for Thai Word Segmentation (Seeha et al., LREC 2020)
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