Segmentation and Word Discovery

Idea

• Input unsegmented utterances (phonemes or letters)
• Output utterances segmented into words

Goals

• Help understand how kids do it
  • (Brent, 1999, Trends in Cognitive Science; ms. in pdf)
  • (Dahan & Brent, 1999, J. Exper. Psych.: General ms. in pdf)
  
  
• Text segmentation for Natural Language Processing (e.g. Chinese)
  • (Brent & Tao, submitted, Assoc. Comp. Ling. ms. in pdf)

Personnel

• Xiaopeng Tao (Chinese text segmentation)
• Evan Keibler & Charles Vaske (Graphical Web Demo)