@inproceedings{zinin-xu-2020-corpus,
title = "Corpus of {C}hinese Dynastic Histories: Gender Analysis over Two Millennia",
author = "Zinin, Sergey and
Xu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.98",
pages = "785--793",
abstract = "Chinese dynastic histories form a large continuous linguistic space of approximately 2000 years, from the 3rd century BCE to the 18th century CE. The histories are documented in Classical (Literary) Chinese in a corpus of over 20 million characters, suitable for the computational analysis of historical lexicon and semantic change. However, there is no freely available open-source corpus of these histories, making Classical Chinese low-resource. This project introduces a new open-source corpus of twenty-four dynastic histories covered by Creative Commons license. An original list of Classical Chinese gender-specific terms was developed as a case study for analyzing the historical linguistic use of male and female terms. The study demonstrates considerable stability in the usage of these terms, with dominance of male terms. Exploration of word meanings uses keyword analysis of focus corpora created for gender-specific terms. This method yields meaningful semantic representations that can be used for future studies of diachronic semantics.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="zinin-xu-2020-corpus">
<titleInfo>
<title>Corpus of Chinese Dynastic Histories: Gender Analysis over Two Millennia</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Sergey</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Zinin</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Yang</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Xu</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2020-may</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<language>
<languageTerm type="text">English</languageTerm>
<languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</languageTerm>
</language>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference</title>
</titleInfo>
<originInfo>
<publisher>European Language Resources Association</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Marseille, France</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
<identifier type="isbn">979-10-95546-34-4</identifier>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>Chinese dynastic histories form a large continuous linguistic space of approximately 2000 years, from the 3rd century BCE to the 18th century CE. The histories are documented in Classical (Literary) Chinese in a corpus of over 20 million characters, suitable for the computational analysis of historical lexicon and semantic change. However, there is no freely available open-source corpus of these histories, making Classical Chinese low-resource. This project introduces a new open-source corpus of twenty-four dynastic histories covered by Creative Commons license. An original list of Classical Chinese gender-specific terms was developed as a case study for analyzing the historical linguistic use of male and female terms. The study demonstrates considerable stability in the usage of these terms, with dominance of male terms. Exploration of word meanings uses keyword analysis of focus corpora created for gender-specific terms. This method yields meaningful semantic representations that can be used for future studies of diachronic semantics.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">zinin-xu-2020-corpus</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.98</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2020-may</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>785</start>
<end>793</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Corpus of Chinese Dynastic Histories: Gender Analysis over Two Millennia
%A Zinin, Sergey
%A Xu, Yang
%S Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%@ 979-10-95546-34-4
%G English
%F zinin-xu-2020-corpus
%X Chinese dynastic histories form a large continuous linguistic space of approximately 2000 years, from the 3rd century BCE to the 18th century CE. The histories are documented in Classical (Literary) Chinese in a corpus of over 20 million characters, suitable for the computational analysis of historical lexicon and semantic change. However, there is no freely available open-source corpus of these histories, making Classical Chinese low-resource. This project introduces a new open-source corpus of twenty-four dynastic histories covered by Creative Commons license. An original list of Classical Chinese gender-specific terms was developed as a case study for analyzing the historical linguistic use of male and female terms. The study demonstrates considerable stability in the usage of these terms, with dominance of male terms. Exploration of word meanings uses keyword analysis of focus corpora created for gender-specific terms. This method yields meaningful semantic representations that can be used for future studies of diachronic semantics.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.98
%P 785-793
Markdown (Informal)
[Corpus of Chinese Dynastic Histories: Gender Analysis over Two Millennia](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.98) (Zinin & Xu, LREC 2020)
ACL