CityU Treebank of Classical Chinese Poems

Part-of-speech Tag
Name	Content	Name	Content
AD	Adverb	M	Measure word
AS	Aspect particle	MSP	Other particle
BA	ba3, '把' in ba-construction	NN	Other noun
CC	Coordinating conjunction	NR	Proper noun
CD	Cardinal number	NT	Temporal noun
CS	Subordinating conjunction	OD	Ordinal number
DEC	de5, '的' as a complementizer for a nominalizer	P	Preposition
DEG	de5, '的' as a genitive and an associative marker	PN	Pronoun
DT	Determiner	SB	bei4, '被' in short bei-construction
IJ	Interjection	SP	Sentence-final particle
JJ	Other noun modifier	VA	Predicative adjective
LB	bei4, '被' in long bei-construction	VC	Copula
LC	Localizer	VE	you3, '有' as the main verb
		VV	Other verb

This website is designed to help you to browse or search in a treebank of Classical Chinese poems developed at City University of Hong Kong. Some search examples are available here [TODO link to example tab].

The part-of-speech tagset of the treebank is based on that of the Penn Chinese Treebank, with some modifications described in (Lee, 2012)

The dependency relations are based on the Stanford Dependencies for Chinese, also with some modifications described in (Lee & Kong, 2012)

The treebank was annotated by Yin Hei Kong, Tin Ho Chan, Cheuk Ho Wan, with contributions from undergraduate students at the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. This website is maintained by Ying Cheuk Hui.

Publications

John Lee and Yin Hei Kong, 2012.
A Dependency Treebank of Classical Chinese Poems.
In Proc. Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

John Lee, 2012.
A Classical Chinese Corpus with Nested Part-of-Speech Tags.
In Proc. Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

John Lee, Ying Cheuk Hui and Yin Hei Kong, 2013.
Treebanking for Data-driven Research in the Classroom.
In Proc. Workshop on Teaching NLP and CL.