Jonathan Webster

Jonathan Webster has 2 papers in our library, in 1992–2018, most of them on English, Tokenization & segmentation; often with Chunyu Kit, John Sie Yuen Lee.

2 papers in our library · 1992–2018

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Tokenization as the Initial Phase in NLP (1992 · 382 citations)
The paper argues that tokenization, the first step of NLP, is a real problem with its own definitions. It defines the notions of word and token from two points of view, that of the lexicographer and that of a working implementation. Automatic segmentation of Chinese words serves as the main illustration. For English…
Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing (2018 · 8 citations)
Non-native university students often struggle with the formal style of academic English. A key feature of that style is nominalization, which recasts events as nouns. The authors propose a writing assistant that moves a sentence along Halliday's cline of metaphoricity. It turns a complex clause, such as a main clause…

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International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): COLING 1992
Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)

Papers of our library cite their works 23 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 31 October 2026