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We scientifically test Harris’s hypothesis that morpheme/ word boundaries can be detected from changes in the complexity of phoneme sequences. We re-formulate his hypothesis from a more information theoretic viewpoint and use a corpus to test whether the hypothesis holds. We found that his hypothesis holds for morphemes, with an F-score of about 80%, in both English and Chinese. However, we obtained contrary results for English and Chinese with regard to word boundaries; this reflects a difference in the nature of the two languages.
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Tanaka-Ishii, K., Jin, Z. (2006). From Phoneme to Morpheme: Another Verification Using a Corpus. In: Matsumoto, Y., Sproat, R.W., Wong, KF., Zhang, M. (eds) Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead. ICCPOL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11940098_25
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