... sufferfrom the same dilemma. Word segmentation is sup-posed to identify word boundaries in a running text,and words defined by these boundaries are then com-pared with the mental/electronic lexicon ... modeling segmentation as character classification (Xue, 2003; Gao et al.,2004). This approach observes that by classifyingcharacters as word- initial, word- final, penultimate,etc., word segmentation ... components of words, instead,they are contextual background providing informa-tion about the likelihood of whether each CB is alsoa wordbreak (WB). In other words, we model Chi-nese word segmentation...