Joint Decoding for Chinese Word Segmentation and POS Tagging Using Character-Based and Word-Based Discriminative Models

For Chinese word segmentation and POS tagging problem, both character-based and word-based discriminative approaches can be used. Experiments show that these two approaches bring different errors and can complement each other. In this paper, we propose a joint decoding model based on both character-based and word-based models using multi-beam search algorithm. Experimental results show that the joint decoding model outperforms character-based and word-based baseline models.