the probability of the juncture between WC and its previous word wp=ek ek+i wel , it can be formulated as PWJM -0 (WC Pr(t B(wpwc)), if both wp and WC are known Pr (tB(ei ed), if both wp and WC are unknown Pr (tB (ei wc)), if wp is unknown and WC is known Pr (tB (wped), if wp is known and WC is unknown 32.2 Word-formation patterns As we can see, a segmented word may be an independent lexicon word or a combination of lexicon words.
a lexicon word presents itself as one independent word or one component word of another word after segmentation.