Cross-Strait Lexical Differences: A Comparative Study based on Chinese Gigaword Corpus

以中文十億詞語料庫為基礎之兩岸詞彙對比研究 (A Study of Lexical Differences between China and Taiwan based on the Chinese Gigaword Corpus) [In Chinese]

Using Chinese Gigaword Corpus and Chinese Word Sketch in linguistic Research

We explore the possibility of deeper linguistic research based on corpus and computational linguistic tools in this paper. In particular, we adopt Chinese Word Sketch, the application of Word Sketch Engine to Chinese GigaWord Corpus, for linguistic research. We apply Chinese Sketch Engine results to deeper linguistic account such as selectional restriction and event type selection. The study is...

A Corpus-based Study of Lexical Bundles in Discussion Section of Medical Research Articles

There has been increasing interest in utilizing corpora in linguistic research and pedagogy in recent years. Rhetorical organization of different sections of research articles may appear similar in various disciplines, but close examination may show subtle differences nonetheless. One of the features that has been at the center of attention especially in recent years is the idiomaticity of a di...

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 d...

Word sketch lexicography: new perspectives on lexicographic studies of Chinese near synonyms

Comparative study of near synonyms is one of the most productive research paradigms in Chinese lexicography. Empirical studies to discriminate near synonyms are either introspection-based or corpus-based. Yet, due to the large quantity of data in a corpus, lexicological studies of Chinese rarely make full use of the corpus data. To solve this problem, Kilgarriff’s Word Sketch Engine is designed...