Abstract
The paper discusses the essential problems in the study of word formation in Chinese language processing. It is found that the current statistical conclusions have been far from effective on the recognition of unregistered Chinese compounds combined from single-syllable characters. Following the syntactic-based viewpoint, those statistical investigations present the structural properties of compounds instead of the way by which they are made up of, while actually most of the compounds are composed by meanings of each character, in the light of linguistic and nonlinguistic restrictions. At present, very limited knowledge of word formation have been expected to work on the recognition of unregistered Chinese compounds. As such an illustration, the paper gives a set of applicable rules and shows its performance in a Chinese new word recognition system.
| Keywords: | language information processing; Chinese wont formation; Chinese compound; semantic compounding; recognition of unregistered Chinese compounds |
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