中央研究院資訊科學研究所 May 8, 1991

A Wen-Zi-Xue (文字學) Data Base and
The ITRIX Chinese Computing Environment

謝清俊、許金定、賴洋助

Abstract

Since 1985, a long-term program, called the Computer applications for the Humanities and the Sociology studies has been started and conducted by the Computing Center of the Academia Sinica. Under this program, many research and development projects have been carried out. These projects include developing data bases, implementing computing tools, and lso doing some basic computational linguistic research in Chinese language. The database and the related work presented in this paper is also a part of the mentioned program.

The ultimate goal of the program is to develop a computerized base for Sinology studies, especially in the Humanities and the Sociology fields. As a consequence, the ability of processing information in Chinese becomes a critical issue of the program. The work presented in this paper provides a necessary and basic foundation for studying ancient materials as well as improving the system's abilities to handling Chinese language.