Challenge Programme
Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes Challenge
General description of the challenge or a challenge series (1 September 2005 – 12 April 2006)
The objective of the Challenge is to design a statistical machine learning algorithm that segments words into the smallest meaning-bearing units of language, morphemes. Ideally, these are basic vocabulary units suitable for different tasks, such as text understanding, machine translation, information retrieval, and statistical language modeling. The scientific goals are:
- To learn of the phenomena underlying word construction in natural languages
- To discover approaches suitable for a wide range of languages
- To advance machine learning methodology
