Building an Indexical Classical Chinese Philosophical Dictionary Based on Electronic Corpora

摘要

Technological advances make it feasible to do exhaustive research in the humanities Large-scale electronic text databases have been used to make better dictionaries and to make more authoritative studies on the current state of language use. In this paper, we report on the use of computers in the analysis of classical Chinese philosophical texts, initially The Four Books (四書), and in the compilation of key terms based on their philosophical significance and grammatical usage A sample entry of Yi (義) is appended as illustration.