Some problems of The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (6 th ed.): With a call for a corpus-based Chinese lexicography

作者：Zequan Liu, Dandan Zhang · 发表于：Journal of Chinese linguistics · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1353/jcl.2015.0012 · 被引用次数：18 · 研究领域：Lexicography and Language Studies、Translation Studies and Practices、Natural Language Processing Techniques

This paper sets out to examine the problems which exist with the newly published Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (6th edition), with particular reference to the establishment of the definitions, exemplifications and word class labels of its entries, the selection of its neologisms, as well as its reader-friendly considerations. The examination is conducted based on the query results from available Chinese corpora, with an aim to highlight the urgent necessity of the use of large-scale corpora for Chinese lexicography. The study concludes that it is now imperative to build open-ended, large-scale and multimodal corpora of contemporary Chinese in order to lend assistance to Chinese lexicography.