Quantitative Linguistic Research of Contemporary Chinese

Abstract

In the era of big data, linguistic studies with quantitative methods have gained momentum. Ever since the approval of the project ‘Quantitative Linguistic Research of Contemporary Chinese’ in 2011, the research group led by Professor Haitao Liu has continued to investigate quantitative features of Chinese texts as well as other languages from four aspects, that is, quantitative research on a lexical level, on a syntactic level, and on other levels like phonemic, discourse, and semantic levels, as well as quantitative research based on the complex network approach. This group aims to explore universal laws of all languages while still paying attention to differences across different languages. In this project report, the main research papers published in the past five years are reviewed. Through these studies, we can find that the quantitative method has attracted the attention of Chinese linguists.