Resources for Chinese

Tools

Free software

• rseg word segmentation; written in ruby (no compilation, no hard dependencies apart from ruby), comes with a model (MIT license)
• ctbparser word segmentation, POS tagging, NER, dependency parsing, all using Conditional Random Fields; written in C++ (LGPL license)
• ZPar word segmentation, POS tagging, CFG/dep/CCG parsing of Chinese and English; written in C++ (GPL3 license)
• DuDuPlus: a graph-based dependency parser for English and Chinese ("Other Open Source" license?)
  • where is the source code?

Corpora

Free license

• HC Corpora 1606811 lines of Fair Use excerpts from news, blogs, twitter
• UN parallel corpora

Nonfree or Unknown license

• Chinese Computing
• Word Segmented and POS tagged People Daily Corpus at ICL of Peking University
• Frequency list of characters in the Internet corpus
• Frequency list of lexical items in the Internet corpus
• Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese