... densitydistributions for words vs. non -words, we observedthat the VBE at both boundaries were the most dis-criminative value. Therefore, we decided to take inaccount the VBE only at the word- candidate ... Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 383–387,Jeju, Republic of Korea, 8-14 July 2012.c2012 Association for Computational LinguisticsUnsupervized Word Segmentation: the case for Mandarin ... redefine the sentence segmentation problem as the maximization of the au-tonomy measure of its words. For a character se-quence s, if we call Seg(s) the set of all the possiblesegmentations, then...