Open AccessA Comparable Corpus-Based Study of Cross-Strait Varieties: The Case of 注意 Zhùyì and 專心 Zhuānxīn
Author(s) -
Liu Jie-xiu,
Yingying Chen
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.17507/tpls.1203.16
Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , computer science , mainland china , word (group theory) , linguistics , natural language processing , sketch , artificial intelligence , china , history , philosophy , archaeology , algorithm
Chinese Word Sketch (CWS) provides a tool to identify the semantic distinctions of the Chinese near synonyms in the natural language use situation. This study has the case of 注 意 Zhùyì and 專 心 Zhuānxīn, with Gigaword_CNA and Gigaword_XIN, two of the main sub-corpora in CWS, as the corpora for the research. Based on the comparison of senses and part of speech (POS) from Chinese Word Net and dictionaries, it is found that there are some disagreements of the POS between the ones prescribed by dictionary and in actual language use. What is more, some similarities and differences have been revealed based on the common and only patterns in the two sub-corpora. The study aims to reveal the variations of the two keywords in Taiwan Mandarin and Mainland Mandarin, which will contribute to the revision of the dictionary and facilitate a better understanding of cross-strait communication.