<p>For a big-data Chinese corpus, have a look at this one:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="http://rocling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/engversion/20corpus.htm">(Taiwan) Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese 台灣 中央研究院 中文詞知識庫小組 現代漢語平衡語料庫</a></p>
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<ul>
<li>A million-word level corpus</li>
<li>Contact: Miss Su-Chu Lin (林素朱), jess@hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw</li>
<li><a href="http://db1x.sinica.edu.tw/cgi-bin/kiwi/mkiwi/kiwi.sh?language=1">Introduction in Chinese</a></li>
<li>Not sure if you can download it for free</li>
</ul>

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2013-09-07T23:21:42.000Z
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George
<p>I haven't found a large corpus, but I have used the results of some projects that analysed all Usenet newsgroups from 1993-1994. You could probably contact <a href="http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~skhuang/" rel="nofollow">Shih-Kun Huang</a> for information about the original corpus.</p>

<p>The files I used were a list of <a href="http://technology.chtsai.org/charfreq/" rel="nofollow">character frequencies</a> and a list of <a href="http://technology.chtsai.org/wordlist/" rel="nofollow">word frequencies</a>.</p>

<p>It's probably smaller than you want, and it only contains individual sentences, but you might find the translations at <a href="http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show_all_in/cmn/none/none" rel="nofollow">tatoeba.org</a> interesting. You can download the <a href="http://tatoeba.org/eng/downloads" rel="nofollow">raw data</a>.</p>

<p>I don't know if they can be downloaded, but there are lots of example sentences on <a href="http://www.jukuu.com/search.php?q=%E5%A5%BD" rel="nofollow">jukuu.com</a>.</p>

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Don Kirkby
<p>You can <a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/zhwiki/latest/" rel="nofollow">download all of the Chinese language Wikipedia</a>. (you would probably want: zhwiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2) </p>

<p>Another source that may or may not be suitable depending on the specific project is <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/zh" rel="nofollow">Project Gutenberg's collection of Chinese language books</a>. The downside of this source is that most of them will be quite old.</p>

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What character set does the xml file use, traditional or simplified? If it is a mix, that's an issue.
imrek
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James
<p>Is there online corpus for the Chinese language? What I mean is something like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brown Corpus for American English</a>.</p>

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2013-09-07T23:22:40.413Z
Please clarify what kinds of queries you need to run. For instance, why wouldn't google meet your purposes (you can limit to Chinese results only)?
Stumpy Joe Pete
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2013-09-10T03:49:21.897Z
The primary disadvantage of the Google approach is that they don't have a search API and actively detect and block scraping. It would be suitable for any human needs, but probably not for what drobnbobn is after.
James
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Is there online corpus for the Chinese language?
# Is there online corpus for the Chinese language?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-09-07)

Is there online corpus for the Chinese language? What I mean is something like the [Brown Corpus for American English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus).

**Tags:** simplified-characters, dictionary

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Please clarify what kinds of queries you need to run. For instance, why wouldn't google meet your purposes (you can limit to Chinese results only)?  
> **username_2**: The primary disadvantage of the Google approach is that they don't have a search API and actively detect and block scraping. It would be suitable for any human needs, but probably not for what username_0 is after.  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2013-09-07. Score: 9

For a big-data Chinese corpus, have a look at this one:

> [(Taiwan) Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese 台灣 中央研究院 中文詞知識庫小組 現代漢語平衡語料庫](http://rocling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/engversion/20corpus.htm)

* A million-word level corpus
* Contact: Miss Su-Chu Lin (林素朱), jess@hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw
* [Introduction in Chinese](http://db1x.sinica.edu.tw/cgi-bin/kiwi/mkiwi/kiwi.sh?language=1)
* Not sure if you can download it for free


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### Answer by username_4 on 2013-09-11. Score: 4

I haven't found a large corpus, but I have used the results of some projects that analysed all Usenet newsgroups from 1993-1994. You could probably contact [Shih-Kun Huang](http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~skhuang/) for information about the original corpus.

The files I used were a list of [character frequencies](http://technology.chtsai.org/charfreq/) and a list of [word frequencies](http://technology.chtsai.org/wordlist/).

It's probably smaller than you want, and it only contains individual sentences, but you might find the translations at [tatoeba.org](http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show_all_in/cmn/none/none) interesting. You can download the [raw data](http://tatoeba.org/eng/downloads).

I don't know if they can be downloaded, but there are lots of example sentences on [jukuu.com](http://www.jukuu.com/search.php?q=%E5%A5%BD).


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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-09-10. Score: 3

You can [download all of the Chinese language Wikipedia](http://dumps.wikimedia.org/zhwiki/latest/). (you would probably want: zhwiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2)

Another source that may or may not be suitable depending on the specific project is [Project Gutenberg's collection of Chinese language books](http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/zh). The downside of this source is that most of them will be quite old.

> **Comments:**
> **username_5**: What character set does the xml file use, traditional or simplified? If it is a mix, that's an issue.  

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