Dealing with Chinese Overlapping Ambiguity Based on Type Functional Application

The method of type functional application is employed attempting to resolve Chinese overlapping ambiguity in the area of Chinese word segmentation. Instead of traditional methods which treat Chinese overlapping ambiguity as classification problems, the proposed approach regards this task as a sentence type calculus problem. The method is based on type theory and the benefit of this method is that it can deal with overlapping ambiguous strings with any lengths. And the method can judge the real ambiguity as well as dealing with overlapping ambiguity. Several tests are proposed in our work later. Experiments verify that the approach based on type functional application is simple but useful.