Evolution and present situation of corpus research in China

Author: Feng, Zhiwei¹

Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 11, Number 2, 2006 , pp. 173-207(35)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Abstract:

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 alignment of bilingual corpora; automatic PoS tagging; automatic tagging of phrase structure; automatic word segmentation; bilingual corpora; corpora of minority languages in China; corpus; large-scale & authentic text; speech corpora

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.11.2.03fen

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Applied Linguistics, China

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