ppjerry / chinese-char-lm

explores Chinese language models with sub-character level visual information

chinese-char-lm

This is the code associated with the publication Glyph-aware Embedding of Chinese Characters by Dai and Cai. Please consider to cite the paper if you find the code useful in some way for your research.

Dai, Falcon Z., and Zheng Cai. "Glyph-aware Embedding of Chinese Characters." EMNLP 2017 (2017): 64.

@article{dai2017glyph,
  title={Glyph-aware Embedding of Chinese Characters},
  author={Dai, Falcon Z and Cai, Zheng},
  journal={EMNLP 2017},
  pages={64},
  year={2017}
}

usage

• We used Google Noto font for all of our experiments. Download Google Noto Simplified Chinese fonts (https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-hans). Unzip it under the project directory. It is needed to render the glyphs.
• Requires Tensorflow v1.1 and Python 2.7.x

replication

In favor of replicability, we git-tagged the original git commits we used to obtain the published figures. Please use the issues page to contact us with code issues so more people can benefit from the conversations.

authors

Falcon Dai ([email protected])

Zheng Cai ([email protected])