Studies on a Hybrid Way of Rules and Statistics for Chinese Conjunction Usages Recognition

Conjunction is a kind of functional words. Different conjunctions may contain different usages. The same conjunction may have different usages in different contexts. Studies on conjunction usage recognition are helpful for automatic understanding of modern Chinese texts. This paper adopts a hybrid way of rules and statistics to identify conjunction usages. Experiment results show that the methods combining rules and statistics are helpful for automatic recognition of conjunction usages. Among them, F measure of the participle and part-of-speech tagging corpus of the April , May, June 2000 People’ s Daily achieves 91.42%, 90.88%, 90.92% respectively in open test.