... agreement among native speakersregarding the correct word segmentation (Sproat etal., 1996). Also, specific NLP tasks may require dif-ferent segmentation criteria. For example, “” could be treated ... features are used to make the taggingdecisions, with Viterbi decoding finding thehighest scoring segmentation. In this paperwe propose an alternative, word-based seg-mentor, which uses features ... IntroductionWords are the basic units to process for most NLPtasks. The problem of Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is to find these basic units for a given sen-tence, which is written as a continuous...