Construction of English Databases and Related Information Service on the Internet

在这项研究中，我首先尝试构建由各种英语文档生成的文本数据库。为了实现这一目标，有必要通过Internet从众多计算机站点获取大量的电子文本数据。在研究学期的第一年，我尽可能多地获取电子文本数据。在获得“原始”文本数据之后，接下来将它们生成为我原来的文本-数据库样式：每个数据记录在严格意义上只能有一个句子。本研究的第二个目的是从语言学、文体学或统计学的角度分析上文提到的文本数据库。幸运的是，我成功地生成了许多类型的文本数据库。其中，《时代》杂志69篇“年度人物”的全部文章和查尔斯·狄更斯的长篇文学作品《远大前程》都是相当重要的数据库。我对这些符合条件的文本数据库进行了交叉检查。第三，也是本研究的最终目的是将我的原始格式风格和研究成果提供给互联网上的文本数据库。为了实现这一点，我必须设置和维护我自己的具有足够CPU能力和运行可靠性的Internet服务器机器。在研究学期的最后一年，我介绍了Sun微系统公司发布的最新、功能最强大的Internet服务器。所有相关的信息都是通过这台机器在我自己的www主页的首页下面的许多页面中提供的，其URL是http://www.olp.kj.yamagata -u.ac.jp/。

In this research I first tried to construct text-databases generated from various kinds of English documents. To establish this goal, it is necessary to get large volume of electronic text data from numerous computer sites through the Internet. In the first year of the research term, I tried to obtain many electronic text data as possible. After "raw" text data have been obtained, they are next generated into my original text-database style : each data record is forced to have only one sentence in a vary strict sense.The second aim of this research is to analyze text-databases mentioned just above from linguistic, stylistic, or statistic point of view. I fortunately succeeded to generate quite many kinds of text-databases. Among them, whole the sixty-nine articles entitled "Man of the Year" on TIME Magazine and a long literal work named Great Expectation written by Charles Dickens turn out to be quite significant databases. I gave cross examinations to these eligible text-databases.The third, and final aim of this research is to serve text-databases with my original format style and the research results onto the Internet. To make this possible, I had to set and maintain my own Internet server machine that has enough CPU power and running reliability.In the final year of the research term, I introduced the newest and most powerful Internet server machine released from Sun Microsystem Inc. All related information are served from this machine in many pages under the top page of my own Home Page on the World-Wide Web, whose URL is http : //www-olp.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp/.