Naslov
Croatian Language N-Gram System

Autori
Dembitz, Šandor ; Blašković, Bruno ; Gledec, Gordan

Izvornik
Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications (0922-6389) 243 (2012); 696-705

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Croatian; lexical n-gram; language modeling; Heaps’ law

Sažetak
Large-scale n-gram models are available for a small number of languages. So far, Croatian was not one of them. The research presented in this paper describes the development of n-gram database system suitable for large-scale language modeling in Croatian. The process of n-gram collection relies on Croatian academic online spellchecker Hascheck, which has been publicly available since 1993, and is today a popular language service, with average daily traffic exceeding million tokens. The approach demonstrated in this paper eliminated the need of n-gram data cleaning in the post-processing phase, which is a serious issue in other languages. The spellchecker dynamics allowed Heaps’ law modeling to be applied to Croatian n-grams, which enabled the prediction of n-gram count growth.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Elektrotehnika, Računarstvo

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