Chinese Sketch Engine and the Extraction of Grammatical Collocations

This paper introduces a new technology for collocation extraction in Chinese. Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2004) has proven to be a very effective tool for automatic description of lexical information, including collocation extraction, based on large-scale corpus. The original work of Sketch Engine was based on BNC. We extend Sketch Engine to Chinese based on Gigaword corpus from LDC. We discuss the available functions of the prototype Chinese Sketch Engine (CSE) as well as the robustness of language-independent adaptation of Sketch Engine. We conclude by discussing how Chinese-specific linguistic information can be incorporated to improve the