Prof. Rao Gaoqi introduces the BCC diachronic corpus and digital humanities research on the evolution of contemporary Chinese.

Talk highlights

• Design and architecture of the BCC diachronic corpus
• Methodological issues in building diachronic language resources
• Case studies: tracing lexical and grammatical change in modern Chinese
• Implications for corpus-based digital humanities research

The seminar was co-organized with the platform as part of the ongoing series connecting corpus linguistics and DH scholarship across institutions.

Recording available on request — contact dhi@ust. hk.