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Applying Machine Learning to Text Segmentation for Information Retrieval

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Author	Huang, Xiangji Peng, Fuchun Schuurmans, Dale Cercone, Nick Robertson, Stephen E.
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	We propose a self-supervised word segmentation technique for text segmentation in Chinese information retrieval. This method combines the advantages of traditional dictionary based, character based and mutual information based approaches, while overcoming many of their shortcomings. Experiments on TREC data show this method is promising. Our method is completely language independent and unsupervised, which provides a promising avenue for constructing accurate multi-lingual or cross-lingual information retrieval systems that are flexible and adaptive. We find that although the segmentation accuracy of self-supervised segmentation is not as high as some other segmentation methods, it is enough to give good retrieval performance. It is commonly believed that word segmentation accuracy is monotonically related to retrieval performance in Chinese information retrieval. However, for Chinese, we find that the relationship between segmentation and retrieval performance is in fact nonmonotonic; that is, at around 70% word segmentation accuracy an over-segmentation phenomenon begins to occur which leads to a reduction in information retrieval performance. We demonstrate this effect by presenting an empirical investigation of information retrieval on Chinese TREC data, using a wide variety of word segmentation algorithms with word segmentation accuracies ranging from 44% to 95%, including 70% word segmentation accuracy from our self-supervised word-segmentation approach. It appears that the main reason for the drop in retrieval performance is that correct compounds and collocations are preserved by accurate segmenters, while they are broken up by less accurate (but reasonable) segmenters, to a surprising advantage. This suggests that words themselves might be too broad a notion to conveniently capture the general semantic meaning of Chinese text. Our research suggests machine learning techniques can play an important role in building adaptable information retrieval systems and different evaluation standards for word segmentation should be given to different applications.
Starting Page	333
Ending Page	362
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13864564
Journal	Information Retrieval
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	3-4
e-ISSN	15737659
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Management of Computing and Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Information Systems

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