Compilation of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese in the KOTONOHA Initiative

摘要: Compilation of a hundred million word balanced corpus named Balanced Corpus Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) is underway at the National Institute for Language. This component KOTONOHA super-corpus that covers full range modern from middle 19 th century up to present. The unique characteristics BCCWJ consists in about two third samples were randomly selected statistical populations: one them publication data books, magazines, and newspapers during years 20012005, other set books registered more than 13 public libraries Tokyo metropolis (335,000 different books). will be publicly available first half 2011.