A prototype of Chinese search engine based on word segmentation techniques

The aim of this paper is to reveal and stress the role of word segmentation in implementing Chinese search engines on the WWW. CSeg and Tag1.1, an integrated system of word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging for unrestricted Chinese texts, along with some basic ideas of its design, are then presented. A prototype of the Chinese search engine WalkerSun, which makes use of CSeg and Tag1.1 as its underlying NLP tool, is introduced briefly.