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  <Title>How Should a Large Corpus Be Built?-A Comparative Study of Closure in AAnnotated Newspaper Corpora from Two Chinese Sources, Towards Building A Larger Representative Corpus Merged from Representative Sublanguage Collections</Title>
  <Section position="3" start_page="116" end_page="116" type="intro">
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2 Overview
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This work applies the methodology of McEnery and Wilson to examine closure rates in a comparative study of all available tagged Chinese newspaper corpora. First I define lexical and syntactic closure for this study in section 3.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Then, section 4 begins this study with an examination of ~ the newspaper texts of the Academica Sinica Balanced Corpus (ASBC). Section 5 extends this study to an examination of the newspaper texts of the UPenn Chinese Tree-bank (CTB). Section 6 presents my findings and section 7 discusses some implications for future corpus building.</Paragraph>
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