Recent Progress in Corpus Linguistics in China

This paper discusses some of the new developments in corpus linguistics in China. In the area of Chinese corpus compilation it presents large-scale text databases, representative corpora, annotated corpora, lexical databases for information processing, phonological, dialectal, spoken and other specialized corpora. In connection with the analysis and annotation of Chinese corpora, the characteristics of the Chinese language, word segmentation, tagging, parsing, and some corpus analytical systems are described. Concerning English corpus studies, some corpora of English as a Foreign Language and corpus-based research are depicted. On this basis tentative conclusions are drawn.