Break it Down into BTS: Basic, Tiniest Subword Units for Korean (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing word embeddings for Korean use the internal structure of words with subword information to improve the quality of word representations. |
| Approach: | They introduce Basic, Tiniest Subword (BTS) units for Korean language that are inspired by Hangeul, the Korean writing system. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art Korean word embedding by 11.8% on all intrinsic and extrinsic tasks. |
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