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 Thoughts on “Reliable” Learner’s Vocabularies for Classical and Literary Chinese. </p> <p>Corpus I – Micheal Loewe (1993)’s <em>Early Chinese Texts</em><br> Corpus II – 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 > list of texts and sources / used versions, token and type counts</li> <li>xx_freq_1-1.csv > unigram / character frequencies and counts</li> <li>xx_freq_1-4.csv > 1 to 4 character word frequencies and counts, "words" according to Hanyu da cidian 漢語大詞典 (Luo 1986–1994))</li> <li>xx_freq_2-4.csv > 2 to 4 character words</li> </ul> <p>Additionally, pca_zhengshi_vs_loewe_vs_xiaoshuo.html is an interactive version of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) presented in the article, texts from the three corpora are represented using the 1.000 most frequent 1–4 character combinations from the dataset.</p>
ShareScore
44/100
Overall dataset sharing score
Score breakdown
These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.
- Stewardship
- 8
- Harmonization
- 8
- Access
- 16
- Reuse readiness
- 8
- Engagement
- 4