Word Segmentation for Vietnamese Text Categorization An Internet-based Statistic and Genetic Algorithm Approach

Hung Nguyen Thanh, Khanh Bui Doan


Abstract
This paper suggests a novel Vietnamese segmentation approach for text categorization. Instead of using an annotated training corpus or a lexicon which are still lacking in Vietnamese, we use both statistical information extracted directly from a commercial search engine and a genetic algorithm to find the optimal routes to segmentation. The extracted information includes document frequency and n-gram mutual information. Our experiment results obtained on the segmentation and categorization of online news abstracts are very promising. It matches near 80 % human judgment on segmentation and over 90 % micro-averaging F1 in categorization. The processing time is less than one second per document when statistical information is cached.
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2006.jeptalnrecital-poster.20
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Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters
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April
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2006
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Leuven, Belgique
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Piet Mertens, Cédrick Fairon, Anne Dister, Patrick Watrin
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JEP/TALN/RECITAL
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561–570
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Hung Nguyen Thanh and Khanh Bui Doan. 2006. Word Segmentation for Vietnamese Text Categorization An Internet-based Statistic and Genetic Algorithm Approach. In Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters, pages 561–570, Leuven, Belgique. ATALA.
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