Corpus Annotation of Pre-modern Vernacular Chinese Literature for Literary Theory Studies

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This study aims to explore useful annotations in the corpora of pre-modern vernacular Chinese literatures for literature studies and relevant disciplines.1. As preliminary arrangements for building the corpora, I edited digital texts of 24 zaju dramas (which have woodblock print versions in the middle of the Ming period) from typographical print versions. In addition, 9 of them were also edited based on the research of woodblock print versions in those days. Besides drama texts, I edited a digital text of a vernacular fiction with interpretative comments of a critic.2. I examined what kinds of annotations in digital texts of pre-modern vernacular Chinese literatures could be useful for literature studies and relevant disciplines. For trial I made two small corpora: one with annotated metadata as well as interpretative comments of a critic and theother with POS tag by using a morphological analyzer for Modern Chinese. Through these samples, I investigated their effectiveness.