Chinese word segmentation based on A-priori and adjacent characters

Chinese word segmentation is an important and difficult problem, due to the special written format of Chinese. In this paper, an adjacent characters and A-priori based algorithm is presented for segmentation. In this new method, the information of adjacent characters is utilized to join the n-grams and their adjacent characters. Experimental results show that the performance of the new method is remarkably better than the mutual information based methods when LDC95T13 Chinese collection is tested.