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Corpora for Written Chinese: Corpora for Written Chinese: an Investigation
into its Availability Abstract This report will investigate ...
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Corpora for Written Chinese:
an Investigation into its Availability
Abstract
This report will investigate the availability of corpora for Chinese language. The first part is a brief introduction to the history and development of Chinese corpora. The second part will specially introduce the current situation of corpora for mandarin Chinese, including a list of such corpora existed today. Then it moves to the third part, a deeper investigation into three of the chosen corpora, introducing their purposes, contents, makers, availability, formatting, annotation, etc. The fourth part will illustrate what kinds of corpora are in the making, and finally a conclusion will be made on what kinds of corpora still need to be built in the future.
Key words: corpus, mandarin Chinese, availability, People¡¯s Daily corpus, HSK corpus, LIVAC corpus
1. Introduction: Chinese Corpora: its History
When talking about corpora, one may easily reflect the Brown corpus, the LOB corpus, the London-Lund corpus, etc., most of which are English Corpora. If we emphasize corpora of ¡°other languages¡±, we may know the Swedish SUC corpus, the RWC Japanese corpus, but what about Chinese corpora? It seems little investigation has been made on corpora of this language in western countries. How about the development of corpus linguistics in China? Is it well developed? Is there many Chinese corpora available? Which is the largest and most famous one? And what about the details of these Chinese corpora? So many questions haunted in our minds. This assignment will try to seek answers to the related questions.
The first Chinese Corpus might be the one called ¡°Applied Glossary of Modern Chinese¡±, which was created in the 1920s, and it¡¯s not a machine-readable one. Chen Heqin, the maker of this corpus, collected about five hundred thousand Chinese words in his work, and aimed to use it in designing...
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