This paper presents our system in the Chinese spelling check (CSC) task of SIGHAN-8 Bake-Off. Given a sentence, our systems are designed to detect and correct the spelling error. As we know, CSC is still a hot topic today and it is an open problem yet. N-gram language modeling (LM) is widely used in CSC, since its simplicity and power. We present a model based on joint bi-gram and trigram LM an...

TM , using focused ion beam technology has been characterized. To date, most microfabrication in this material has used UV lithography and UV lasers, with minimum feature size of around 10µm determined by the grain structure, though there has been some recent work using high energy proton irradiation. Focused ion beam technology offers two potential advantages: features are etched directly with...

This paper describes our Chinese spelling check system submitted to SIGHAN Bake-off 2013 evaluation. The main idea is to exchange potential error character with its confusable ones and rescore the modified sentence using a conditional random field (CRF)-based word segmentation/part of speech (POS) tagger and a tri-gram language model (LM) to detect and correct possible spelling errors. Experime...

This paper describes our system in the Chinese spelling check (CSC) task of CLP-SIGHAN Bake-Off 2014. CSC is still an open problem today. To the best of our knowledge, n-gram language modeling (LM) is widely used in CSC because of its simplicity and fair predictive power. Our work in this paper continues this general line of research by using a tri-gram LM to detect and correct possible spellin...

Spelling correction has been studied for many decades, which can be classified into two categories: (1) regular text spelling correction, (2) query spelling correction. Although the two tasks share many common techniques, they have different concerns. This paper presents our work on the CLP-2014 bake-off. The task focuses on spelling checking on foreigner Chinese essays. Compared to online sear...

This paper describes the Chinese Word Segmenter for our participation in CIPSSIGHAN-2010 bake-off task of Chinese word segmentation. We formalize the tasks as sequence tagging problems, and implemented them using conditional random fields (CRFs) model. The system contains two modules: multiple preprocessor and basic segmenter. The basic segmenter is designed as a problem of character-based tagg...

We have participated in the open tracks and closed tracks on four corpora of Chinese word segmentation tasks in CIPSSIGHAN-2010 Bake-offs. In our experiments, we used the Chinese inner phonology information in all tracks. For open tracks, we proposed a double hidden layers’ HMM (DHHMM) in which Chinese inner phonology information was used as one hidden layer and the BIO tags as another hidden l...

It is a well-known problem in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) that the real sample temperature is in most cases unknown during the growth process. We have used a commercial band-edge absorption spectroscopy system to determine the sample temperature during bake-out and growth of different types of samples. Time-resolved in-situ measurements show how the sample temperature is influenced by differen...

Econometric theory is like an exquisitely balanced French recipe, spelling out precisely with how many turns to mix the sauce, how many carats of spice to add, and for how many seconds to bake the mixture at exactly 474 degrees of temperature. But when the statistical cook turns to the raw materials, he finds that hearts of cactus fruits are unavailable, so he substitutes cantaloupe; where the ...