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Chinese Word Segmentation Using Minimal Linguistic Knowledge Aitao Chen School of Information Management and Systems University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-4600, USA aitao@ Abstract This paper presents a primarily data-driven Chinese word segmentation system and its performances on the closed track using two corpora at the first International Chinese word segmentation bakeoff. The system consists of a new words recognizer, a baseline segmentation algorithm based on a unigram language model, and procedures for combining single characters and checking segmentation consistencies.