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Sheffield Corpus of Chinese for Diachronic Linguistic Study.

The paper presents the outcome of the pilot phase of a major project which aims to build a digital resource for the study of historical Chinese texts with a view to facilitating linguistic analysis of the language, particularly from a diachronic point of view. The approach to general problems for a...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 281 - 294
Main Authors: Xiaoling Hu, Williamson, Nigel, McLaughlin, Jamie
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2005
Subjects:
Language & languages
Programming languages
Computer programming
Historical linguistics
Computer science
Linguistics
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Summary:The paper presents the outcome of the pilot phase of a major project which aims to build a digital resource for the study of historical Chinese texts with a view to facilitating linguistic analysis of the language, particularly from a diachronic point of view. The approach to general problems for a diachronic corpus is discussed. Details of the tag set and the tagging system devised are given. The development of a sophisticated automatic mark-up scheme for Chinese texts from widely different time periods and genres is indicated.