Character-based collocation for Mandarin Chinese
Chu‐Ren Huang, Keh-Jiann Chen, Yun-yan Yang · 1994
This paper describes a characters-based Chinese collocation system and discusses the advantages of it over a traditiolml word-based systcm.Since wordbreaks are not conventionally marked in Chinese text corpora, a character-based collocation system has the dual advantages of avoiding pre-proccssing distortion and directly accessing sub-lexical information.Furthermore, word-based collocational properties can be obtained through an auxiliary modttle of automatic segmentation.corpora as they are, we ",viii be able to access sub-lexical information without additional cost.To take the full advantage of the nature of texts, reliable tools can also be devised to obtain [exical collocation.In this paper, we ,,viii describe the design and implementation era Chinese collocational system that does not require the preprocessing of automatic segmentation but is awe to allow both lexical and sub-lexical information be automatically extracted.