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

本研究旨在探索前现代白话文语料库中有用的注释，为文学研究和相关学科提供参考。作为建立语料库的初步安排，我将24部杂剧（明中期有木刻版）从排印版中编辑成数字文本。另外，还有9本是在对当时木版版的研究基础上编撰的。除了戏剧文本外，我还编辑了一篇带有评论家解释性评论的白话小说的数字文本。我研究了前现代白话文数字文本中的哪些注释对文学研究和相关学科有用。为了试验，我制作了两个小语料库：一个是带注释的元数据和评论家的解释性评论，另一个是使用现代汉语词形分析仪的POS标签。通过这些样本，我调查了它们的有效性。

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.