Re:The Chinese Typewriter: A History
by azurezyq on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:30AM
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For your last point, you can probably check with your Chinese friend and I'm pretty sure they don't buy the idea.
Basically our brain already has built-in text segmentation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_segmentation). I tried to think how I actually do that. It's more like prefix matching over a moderate large dict. It's not complicated and worked pretty well for Chinese. For your particular example, maybe the difference lies in word lengths. Most Chinese words are under 2~3 characters, makes prefix matching way more efficient.
Basically our brain already has built-in text segmentation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_segmentation). I tried to think how I actually do that. It's more like prefix matching over a moderate large dict. It's not complicated and worked pretty well for Chinese. For your particular example, maybe the difference lies in word lengths. Most Chinese words are under 2~3 characters, makes prefix matching way more efficient.