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Raw frequency data: Thoughts on "Reliable" Learner's Vocabularies for Classical and Literary Chinese

<p>This dataset includes the raw frequency counts (classical_chinese_learners_vocabularies_raw_frequencies.zip) used in the article&nbsp;Thoughts on &ldquo;Reliable&rdquo; Learner&rsquo;s Vocabularies for Classical and Literary Chinese.&nbsp;</p> <p>Corpus I &ndash; Micheal Loewe (1993)&rsquo;s <em>Early Chinese Texts</em><br> Corpus II &ndash;&nbsp;Official Histories (zhengshi 正史)<br> Corpus III Six Novels (xiaoshuo 小說), as defined in Hsia 1968</p> <p>The download includes one folder per corpus, structured as follows:</p> <ul> <li>xx_corpus.csv &gt; list of texts and sources / used versions, token and type counts</li> <li>xx_freq_1-1.csv &gt; unigram / character frequencies and counts</li> <li>xx_freq_1-4.csv &gt; 1 to 4 character word&nbsp;frequencies and counts, &quot;words&quot; according to Hanyu da cidian 漢語大詞典 (Luo&nbsp;1986&ndash;1994))</li> <li>xx_freq_2-4.csv &gt; 2 to 4 character words</li> </ul> <p>Additionally, pca_zhengshi_vs_loewe_vs_xiaoshuo.html&nbsp;is an interactive version of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) presented in the article, texts from the three corpora are represented using the&nbsp;1.000 most frequent 1&ndash;4 character combinations from the dataset.</p>

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44/100

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These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.

Stewardship
8
Harmonization
8
Access
16
Reuse readiness
8
Engagement
4

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