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Morphological segmentation with sequence to sequence neural network
Morphological segmentation is an important task of natural language processing as it can significantly improve the processing of unfamiliar and rare words in different tasks that involve text data. In this paper we present datasets in English and Russian for learning and evaluating morphological segmentation algorithms, demonstrate the method based on the sequence to sequence neural model and show that the proposed approach shows better results in comparison with other existing methods of morpheme segmentation. We start from an English dataset, which is already available and only minor preprocessing has been made, and then we experiment with the Russian language, where we could not obtain prepared data. So, some more serious preprocessing issues are included. Moreover, we demonstrate how morphological segmentation can improve another natural language processing task-evaluation of words semantic similarity. To achieve this goal, first we try to reproduce the best results of the participants of Russian words semantic similarity competition (RUSSE), which was conducted in Dialogue 2015 conference. Then we show how with the help of smart morpheme segmentation these results can be advanced.