Exploring and Adapting Chinese GPT to Pinyin Input Method

• Main Authors: Tan, Minghuan, Dai, Yong, Tang, Duyu, Feng, Zhangyin, Huang, Guoping, Jiang, Jing, Li, Jiwei, Shi, Shuming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Computation and Language

While GPT has become the de-facto method for text generation tasks, its application to pinyin input method remains unexplored. In this work, we make the first exploration to leverage Chinese GPT for pinyin input method. We find that a frozen GPT achieves state-of-the-art performance on perfect pinyi...