@inproceedings{e7db4fa5e71a40ab9f9d381d2dac4f10,
title = "A SkE-assisted comparison of three “prestige” near synonyms in Chinese",
abstract = "The discrimination of near synonyms is one of the most important research areas in lexicology and lexical semantics. Traditional comparative studies of near synonyms are mostly introspection-based and corpus-based, both having disadvantages. Sketch Engine (SkE), a tool designed to automatically obtain grammatical and collocational relations of target words from huge amount of data, helps to avoid subjectivity and solves the problem of utilizing the massive amount of data efficiently. By making use of various functions of Chinese Word Sketch (CWS), this paper distinguishes three Chinese synonymous words mingwang, shengwang and weiwang and finds that shengwang and weiwang are closer in meaning and more similar in grammatical features. Our comprehensive detailed examination of similarities and differences between the three words through CWS will shed light on Chinese lexicography, near synonym discrimination as well as Chinese vocabulary teaching and learning.",
keywords = "Chinese Word Sketch, Mingwang, Near synonym discrimination, Shengwang, Weiwang",
author = "Longxing Li and Huang, {Chu Ren} and Xuefeng Gao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018.; 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018 ; Conference date: 26-05-2018 Through 28-05-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_22",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030040147",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "256--266",
editor = "Qi Su and Jiun-Shiung Wu and Jia-Fei Hong",
booktitle = "Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "Germany",
}