PLATCOL, Multilingual Platform for Collocation Dictionaries: the case of Chinese

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is to make some observations on the processing of collocations extracted from the Chinese language, as well as to discuss the problems we have encountered when working with this language in the Multilingual Platform for Collocational Dictionaries (PLATCOL). PLATCOL will include collocations in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Chinese (Orenha-Ottaiano et al. 2021) and is part of the project A phraseographical methodology and model for an Online Corpus-Based Multilingual Collocations Dictionary Platform (Proceso FAPESP 2020/01783-2). A unified methodology has been followed in the platform to obtain the data that will populate the entries. This methodology, which works with reasonable efficiency in the other languages - although it requires a supervised phase of correction and validation - entails an additional effort in the case of the Chinese language where, for example, discrepancies in the assignment of grammatical categories may affect the efficiency of the method in extracting candidates.