Integration Algorithm of English-Chinese Word Segmentation and Alignment

This paper proposes an integration algorithm of English-Chinese word segmentation and alignment. In this algorithm, bilingual word segmentation and alignment work synchronously and interactively. Given sentence-aligned bitext, it cannot only use bilingual word alignment's information to guide resolving word segmentation ambiguities, but also avoid the errors of word segmentation from being transferred into word alignment. Experimental result shows that it distinctly improves accuracy of both word segmentation and alignment