Korean Morphological Analyzer for Neologism and Spacing Error based on Sequence-to-Sequence

Byeongseo Choe, Ig-hoon Lee, Sang-goo Lee

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2020.47.1.70

In order to analyze Internet text data from Korean internet communities, it is necessary to accurately perform morphological analysis even in a sentence with a spacing error and adequate restoration of original form for an out-of-vocabulary input. However, the existing Korean morphological analyzer often uses dictionaries and complicate preprocessing for the restoration. In this paper, we propose a Korean morphological analyzer model which is based on the sequence-to-sequence model. The model can effectively handle the spacing problem and OOV problem. In addition, the model uses syllable bigram and grapheme as additional input features. The proposed model does not use a dictionary and minimizes rule-based preprocessing. The proposed model showed better performance than other morphological analyzers without a dictionary in the experiment for Sejong corpus. Also, better performance was evident for the dataset without space and sample dataset collected from Internet.