Speaker:Prof. Zhiwei FENG

Date:01/04/2013

University:Institute of Applied Linguistics, Hangzhou Normal University, China

Room :A56

Time:4:00pm (coffee: 3:30)

Abstract:

Briefly review the development of corpus research.

The development and present situation of corpus linguistics in China: earlier corpus, large-scale & authentic text corpus, national corpus, speech corpus, bilingual corpus and corpus of minority languages in China, treebank.

The various processing techniques for corpus: automatic word segmentation of Chinese text, automatic POS tagging, automatic tagging of phrase structure and automatic alignment of bilingual corpus, complex network.

Several problems in present corpus research: standardization of corpus specifications, commonly sharing of language resources, knowledge properties, etc.