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<Paper uid="W03-1729">
  <Title>SYSTRAN's Chinese Word Segmentation</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> SYSTRAN's Chinese word segmentation is one important component of its Chinese-English machine translation system. The Chinese word segmentation module uses a rule-based approach, based on a large dictionary and fine-grained linguistic rules. It works on general-purpose texts from different Chinese-speaking regions, with comparable performance. SYSTRAN participated in the four open tracks in the First</Paragraph>
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International Chinese Word Segmentation
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      <Paragraph position="0"> Bakeoff. This paper gives a general description of the segmentation module, as well as the results and analysis of its performance in the Bakeoff.</Paragraph>
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