分词 (fēn cí) — (linguistics) participle; (computational linguistics) word segmentation

Definition

In linguistics, 分词 means 'participle' (a verb form like the English -ing or -ed). In Chinese computational linguistics, it refers to 'word segmentation' — splitting a string of characters into word units, since Chinese has no spaces.

noun
(linguistics) participle(computational linguistics) word segmentation

Examples

  • 分词分词
    Zài yīng yǔ zhōng, xiàn zài fēn cí hé guò qù fēn cí de yòng fǎ bù tóng.
    In English, present participles and past participles are used differently.
  • 分词
    Zhōng wén fēn cí shì zì rán yǔ yán chǔ lǐ de zhòng yào bù zhòu.
    Chinese word segmentation is an important step in natural language processing.
  • 分词
    Zhè ge fēn cí xì tǒng néng zhǔn què huà fēn jù zi zhōng de cí yǔ.
    This word segmentation system can accurately divide words in a sentence.

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