Using corpora to studyClassifiers in Mandarin Chinese.ppt

08/12/2006, Berlin COST Action A31 WG1 Meeting Using corpora to studyClassifiers in Mandarin Chinese Richard Xiao z.xiao@lancaster.ac.uk Chinese corpus linguistics In relation to English, Chinese has a much shorter history of using corpora Sinica Balanced Corpus of Chinese The first annotated corpus of Mandarin Freely accessible online since the mid-1990s Rapid progress over the last decade Corpus building and exploration technology Publicly available corpus resources Chinese text processing Computational processing of Chinese text is more complex than English Chinese text is encoded in doub