The NLPCC2016 dataset is different from the popular news dataset and uses more informal text from Sina Weibo. The training and test data consists of microblogs from different topics, such as finance, sports, entertainment, etc. This dataset is utf-8 encoded and can be used for Chinese word segmentation tasks.

Citation

@InProceedings{qiu2016overview,
Title                    = {Overview of the {NLPCC-ICCPOL} 2016 Shared Task: Chinese Word Segmentation for Micro-blog Texts},
Author                   = {Xipeng Qiu and Peng Qian and Zhan Shi},
Booktitle                = {Proceedings of The Fifth Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing \& The Twenty Fourth
International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages},
Year                     = {2016}
}