Theoretical Framework of Mongolian Word Segmentation Specification for Information Processing

The establishment of Contemporary Mongolian word segmentation specification for information processing has a great significance in the standardization of information processing, the compatibleness of different systems, the sharing of corpus, grammatical analysis, and POS tagging. The present paper studies the framework of Mongolian word segmentation including guidelines, formulating principles, styles, scopes of segmentation units, establishment foundation, structure of the specification and so on, and lays the theoretical foundation for this specification.