Mandarin Chinese News Text

registration: 2007/10/18 06:33:05, last modified: 2016/08/17 13:25:10
title
  • Mandarin Chinese News Text
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • Mandarin Chinese News Text Corpus
creator
  • author Zhibiao Wu
subject
  • newspaper article and radio script database
subject.linguisticField
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) announces the availability of a Mandarin Chinese text corpus. This corpus includes about 250 million GB-encoded text characters. The Mandarin News Corpus includes text from various journalistic sources:

    * newspaper text from Renmin Ribao (People's Daily)
    * radio scripts from China Radio International
    * newswire text from Xinhua newswire service
    The format of this corpus uses a labeled bracketing, expressed in the style of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). The header fields provided by the sources, which give information such as topic, date and article ID, have been retained. The articles cover a variety of topics, including international and domestic news, sports and culture.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • Chinese
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
  • professional
contributor.attribute.author.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.author.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
  • 1995-00-00
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
  • report
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies for linguistic research and development(information retrieval)
type.style
  • written news paper,newspaper text
  • written radio scripts
  • written newswire text
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • plain
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • about 250 million GB-encoded text characters on one CD
format.medium
  • Web Download
format.encoding
  • GB-encoded
format.markup
  • SGML
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 133-578-348-091-2
source
  • newspaper text from Renmin Ribao (People's Daily)
  • radio scripts from China Radio International
  • newswire text from Xinhua newswire service
language
  • Mandarin Chinese
language.area
  • Asia
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights