A Methodological Study on Analysis of Chinese Synonym Based on Corpus

In this paper, the Chinese corpus was used to examine methodology for analysis of Chinese synonyms. Specific findings are as follows: First, from a corpus linguistic perspective, we have examined concept and scope of corpus and methods of using specific techniques and tools used for corpus. Also we have introduced how to use Text Editor, a spreadsheet program, word segmentation & POS Tagging tools as analysis tools for processing Chinese corpus. Based on these, we have introduced a specific study-design procedure for searching and analyzing Chinese corpus. More specifically, modern Chinese synonyms ‘産生’ and ‘發生’ were selected for the research, and based on CN Corpus and CCL Corpus a synonym analysis research method through corpus programs AntConc and WordSmith Tools was attempted. Finally, through a statistical analysis a significant tendency in synonyms ‘産生’ and ‘發生’ was deduced.