Combining Finite State and Corpus-based Techniques for Unknown Word Prediction
Kostadin Cholakov, Gertjan van Noord · University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 2009
Many NLP systems make use of various lex-icons and dictionaries. However, unknown words are a major problem for such resources when applied to real-life data. We propose a method that combines finite state techniques and web queries to deliver possible analyses for a given unknown word and to generate its paradigm. We ensure the general applicability of our approach by applying it to a test set of Dutch words. 1