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  <Title>Mostly-Unsupervised Statistical Segmentation of Japanese: Applications to Kanji</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Given the lack of word delimiters in written Japanese, word segmentation is generally considered a crucial first step in processing Japanese texts. Typical Japanese segmentation algorithms rely either on a lexicon and grammar or on pre-segmented data. In contrast, we introduce a novel statistical method utilizing unsegmented training data, with performance on kanji sequences comparable to and sometimes surpassing that of morphological analyzers over a variety of error metrics.</Paragraph>
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