Word Segmentation System

A Word Segmentation System is a text segmentation system (that applies a word mention segmentation algorithm to solve a word mention segmentation task.

• AKA: Word Mention Recognizer, Lexing System, Word Detection System.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Heuristic Word Mention Segmentation System to being a Data-Driven Word Mention Segmentation System (such as a supervised word mention segmenter).
  • It can range from being an In-Vocabulary Word Detection System to being a Out-Of-Vocabulary Word Detection System.
• Example(s):
  • a Wikipedia-based Word Mention Detection System.
  • a Word Phrase System.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Lemmatizer.
  • a Morphological Parser.
  • a Tokenization System.
  • an Optical Character Recognition System.
  • a Word Mention Reference Resolution System.
  • a DNA Segmentation System.
• See: Chunking System, Word Mention, Text Item.

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