@inproceedings{b404f6cf25644c7180e660a1c2aa461f,
title = "Thai word segmentation with hidden markov model and decision tree",
abstract = "The Thai written language is one of the languages that does not have word boundaries. In order to discover the meaning of the document, all texts must be separated into syllables, words, sentences, and paragraphs. This paper develops a novel method to segment the Thai text by combining a nondictionary based technique with a dictionary-based technique. This method first applies the Thai language grammar rules to the text for identifying syllables. The hidden Markov model is then used for merging possible syllables into words. The identified words are verified with a lexical dictionary and a decision tree is employed to discover the words unidentified by the lexical dictionary. Documents used in the litigation process of Thai court proceedings have been used in experiments. The results which are segmented words, obtained by the proposed method outperform the results obtained by other existing methods.",
keywords = "Decision tree, Hidden markov model, Thai word segmentation",
author = "Poramin Bheganan and Richi Nayak and Yue Xu",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-01307-2\_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "3642013066",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "74--85",
booktitle = "Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 13th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2009, Proceedings",
note = "13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2009 ; Conference date: 27-04-2009 Through 30-04-2009",
}