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User-Generated Text Corpus for Evaluating Japanese Morphological Analysis and Lexical Normalization

Shohei Higashiyama, Masao Utiyama, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita

Abstract

Morphological analysis (MA) and lexical normalization (LN) are both important tasks for Japanese user-generated text (UGT). To evaluate and compare different MA/LN systems, we have constructed a publicly available Japanese UGT corpus. Our corpus comprises 929 sentences annotated with morphological and normalization information, along with category information we classified for frequent UGT-specific phenomena. Experiments on the corpus demonstrated the low performance of existing MA/LN methods for non-general words and non-standard forms, indicating that the corpus would be a challenging benchmark for further research on UGT.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{higashiyama-etal-2021-user,
    title = "User-Generated Text Corpus for Evaluating {J}apanese Morphological Analysis and Lexical Normalization",
    author = "Higashiyama, Shohei  and
      Utiyama, Masao  and
      Watanabe, Taro  and
      Sumita, Eiichiro",
    editor = "Toutanova, Kristina  and
      Rumshisky, Anna  and
      Zettlemoyer, Luke  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek  and
      Beltagy, Iz  and
      Bethard, Steven  and
      Cotterell, Ryan  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Zhou, Yichao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.438/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.438",
    pages = "5532--5541"
}
User-Generated Text Corpus for Evaluating Japanese Morphological Analysis and Lexical Normalization · NAACL 2021