Identifying reduplicative words for Vietnamese word segmentation
Title: Identifying reduplicative words for Vietnamese word segmentation Authors: Tran, Ngoc Anh Dao, Thanh Tinh Nguyen, Phuong-Thai Nguyen, Hong Quan Keywords: Vietnamese word segmentation;reduplicative word;reduplicative rules;Word formations; Computational linguistics;Computer programming Issue Date: 2015 Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Citation: Scopus URI: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7049878/ http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/34125 This paper proposes a method based on linguistic word-formation rules and dictionaries for determining reduplicative words in Vietnamese. The key idea for identifying whether adjacent syllables in a text can form a reduplicative word based on its formation rules. For 2-syllable reduplicative words, this paper uses rules that describe the repeating and the opposing between pairs of initial consonants, rhymes and tones. Then the method is expanded to ide...