Chinese text segmentation for information retrieval

• Main Author: Li, Hui
• Other Authors: Foo, Schubert Shou Boon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/2353
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Chinese word segmentation is a prerequisite process in Chinese information retrieval (IR) to divide the originally continuous sentences in the documents into linguistic units (normally words) that can then be indexed for the purpose of retrieval. Despite a host of word segmentation approaches and Ch...