Word segmentation and tagging are the necessary initial steps for almost any language processing system, and Chinese parsers are no exception.
automatic Chinese word segmentation and tagging has been recognized as a very difficult task (Sproat and Emerson, 2003), for the following reasons: First, Chinese text provides few cues for word boundaries (Xia, 2000;Wu, 2003) and part-ofspeech (POS) information.