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Overlapping ambiguity is a major ambiguity type in Chinese word segmentation. In this paper, the statistical properties of overlapping ambiguities are intensively studied based on the observations from a very large balanced general-purpose Chinese corpus. The relevant statistics are given from different perspectives. The stability of high frequent maximal overlapping ambiguities is tested based on statistical observations from both general-purpose corpus and domain-specific corpora. A disambiguation strategy for overlapping ambiguities, with a predefined solution for each of the 5,507 pseudo overlapping ambiguities, is proposed consequently, suggesting that over 42% of overlapping ambiguities in Chinese running text could be solved without making any error. Several state-of-the-art word segmenters are used to make comparisons on solving these overlapping ambiguities. Preliminary experiments show that about 2% of the 5,507 pseudo ambiguities which are mistakenly segmented by these segmenters can be properly treated by the proposed strategy.
The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number 60573187 and the CINACS project.
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Qiao, W., Sun, M., Menzel, W. (2008). Statistical Properties of Overlapping Ambiguities in Chinese Word Segmentation and a Strategy for Their Disambiguation. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_24
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