PREFACE
This year’s workshop is special. First, Sighan organized the First Chinese
Word Segmentation Bakeoff, and this workshop will include presentations from the
participating sites and discussion about the bakeoff and further contests. Second,
many of us have been affected one way or another by SARS in the past half year.
It is important to keep carrying out our research while helping our countries and
people to get through the tough time.
Our first thanks go to Sighan and ACL for sponsoring the workshop. We would
also like to thank all those who submitted their work to the workshop and who
participated in the Word Segmentation Bakeoff. In total, we received twenty-nine
workshop papers, and thirteen sites from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Singapore, Japan, and United States participated in the bakeoff.
Richard Sproat has put tremendous effort in organizing the bakeoff. We would
also like to thank the four sites (Academia Sinica, the City University of Hong Kong,
PekingUniversity, and the University of Pennsylvania)for providingthe trainingand
testing data, and Tom Emerson for maintaining the workshop and bakeoff websites.
Our programming committee has done a terrific job, considering the problems
caused by SARS in Asia, and the short time span between the submission deadline
and the time of acceptance notices.
In closing we would like to thank you for attending the workshop, and we wish
you have a great time at the workshop.
Qing Ma and Fei Xia
May 25, 2003
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Qing Ma Ryukoku University, Japan, Co-chair
Fei Xia IBM, USA, Co-chair
Joyce Chai Michigan State University, USA
Keh-Jiann Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Zhendong Dong Hownet designer, China
Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp, USA
Changning Huang Microsoft, China
Chu-ren Huang Academia Sinica, Taiwan
K.L.Kwok Queens College, USA
Tom Lai City University of Hong Kong
Sujian Li Peking University, China
Tan Chew Lim National University of Singapore
Dekang Lin University of Alberta, Canada
Kim-Teng Lua National University of Singapore
Masaki Murata Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA
Shimei Pan IBM, USA
Fuji Ren Tokushima University, Japan
Bangalore Srinivas AT&T, USA
Keh-Yih Su Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Maosong Sun Tsinghua University, China
Bing Swen Peking University, China
Banjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong
Amy Weinberg University of Maryland, USA
Andi Wu Microsoft, USA
Dekai Wu Hong Kong Science and Technology University
Nianwen Xue University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jin Yang Systran, USA
Shiwen Yu Peking University, China
Qiang Zhou Tsinghua University, China
WORKSHOP WEBSITE:
http://www.sighan.org/swclp2/
