Evolution and present situation of corpus research in China

Feng, Zhiwei

doi:10.1075/ijcl.11.2.03fen

Article published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 11:2 (2006) ► pp.173–207

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Evolution and present situation of corpus research in China

Zhiwei Feng | Institute of Applied Linguistics, China

Published online: 11 July 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.11.2.03fen

In this paper, the author introduces in detail the development and present situation of corpus linguistics in China: earlier corpora, large-scale & authentic text corpora, national corpora, speech corpora, bilingual corpora and corpora of minority languages in China. The various processing techniques for corpora are also introduced: automatic word segmentation of Chinese text, automatic PoS tagging, automatic tagging of phrase structure and automatic alignment of bilingual corpora. This paper is a bird’s-eye view of corpus linguistics of China. Finally, the author discusses several problems in present corpus research: standardization of corpus specifications, commonly sharing of language resources, knowledge properties, etc.

Keywords: automatic tagging of phrase structure, automatic alignment of bilingual corpora, corpus, large-scale and authentic text, speech corpora, bilingual corpora, corpora of minority languages in China, automatic word segmentation, automatic PoS tagging

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