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  <Title>Chinese Lexical Resource</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have investigated the regional variation of lexical items in two specific domains from a synchronous Chinese corpus, and explored their coverage in a Chinese synonym dictionary. Results are encouraging in the sense that 20-40% of the candidate words from various subcorpora are unique to the individual communities, and as much as 70% of such unique items are not yet covered in the Tongyici Cilin. It therefore suggests great importance and potential for a Pan-Chinese lexical resource which we aim to construct. The synchronous corpus is a valuable resource for mining the region-specific expressions while existing synonym dictionaries might provide a ready-made semantic classificatory structure. Our next step would be to explore automatic means for extracting related lexical items from the corpus, and to incorporate them into existing semantic classifications.</Paragraph>
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