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: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Chinese characters; Input methods; ITS applications; Modeling analyzes; training process; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Databases and Information Systems; Programming Languages and Compilers
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7474; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8477/viewcontent/2022.acl_long.133.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...