Natural Language Processing

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Where Does One Word End When There Are No Spaces?

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A reader can recognise words in a sentence even when the writing does not place spaces between them. A program cannot assume those boundaries are already marked. If we have a dictionary, we can at least ask which entries match the characters at the current position.

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