Natural Language Processing

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Could Repeated Fragments Solve the Rare-Word Problem?

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A whole-word vocabulary has a recurring problem: names, compounds, and unfamiliar word forms keep arriving. Storing every possibility is impractical. Spelling everything one character at a time avoids some missing-word problems but makes sequences longer.

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