Chinese word segmentation is a difficult and challenging job because Chinese has no white space to mark word boundaries. Its result largely depends on the quality of the segmentation dictionary. Many domain phrases are cut into single words for they are not contained in the general dictionary. This paper demonstrates a Chinese domain phrase identification algorithm based on atomic word formation. First, atomic word formation algorithm is used to extract candidate strings from corpus after pretreatment. These extracted strings are stored as the candidate domain phrase set. Second, a lot of stra...
