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The '''Chinese Text Project''' (CTP; 中國哲學書電子化計劃) is a [[digital library]] project that assembles collections of [[Chinese classics|early Chinese texts]]. The name of the project in Chinese literally means "The Chinese Philosophical Book Digitization Project", showing its focus on books related to [[Chinese philosophy]]. It aims at providing accessible and accurate versions of a wide range of texts,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.princeton.edu/chinese-historiography/electronic-resources/databases-electronic-text/ | title = Classical Historiography for Chinese History: Databases & electronic texts | last = Elman | first = Benjamin A. | publisher = Princeton University | access-date = June 3, 2016}}</ref> particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, and the site is credited with providing one of the most comprehensive and accurate collections of classical Chinese texts on the Internet,<ref>[http://www.acpa-net.org/scholarship.html Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (北美中国哲学学者协会)]</ref><ref>[http://cjfraser.net/links/#etext Chris Fraser], Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong</ref> as well as being one of the most useful textual databases for scholars of early Chinese texts.<ref>http://warpweftandway.com/support-the-chinese-text-project/</ref><ref>http://languagehat.com/chinese-text-project/</ref>
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The '''Chinese Text Project''' (CTP; 中國哲學書電子化計劃) is an open-access [[digital library]] project providing a wide range of functionality for transcribing, navigating, and searching [[Chinese classics|early Chinese texts]]. It aims at providing accessible and accurate versions of a wide range of texts,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.princeton.edu/chinese-historiography/electronic-resources/databases-electronic-text/ | title = Classical Historiography for Chinese History: Databases & electronic texts | last = Elman | first = Benjamin A. | publisher = Princeton University | access-date = June 3, 2016}}</ref> particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, and the site is credited with providing one of the most comprehensive and accurate collections of classical Chinese texts on the Internet,<ref>[http://www.acpa-net.org/scholarship.html Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (北美中国哲学学者协会)]</ref><ref>[http://cjfraser.net/links/#etext Chris Fraser], Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong</ref> as well as being one of the most useful textual databases for scholars of early Chinese texts.<ref>http://warpweftandway.com/support-the-chinese-text-project/</ref><ref>http://languagehat.com/chinese-text-project/</ref>
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By means of integrated functionality as well as external tools connected via Application Programming Interface, the system facilitates a wide range of digital analyses of pre-modern textual works. Together with the [https://ctext.org/tools/api CTP API], a [https://ctext.org/tools/plugins plugin system] facilitates direct connections from within the user interface to other projects including [[Text Tools]], [[TextRef]], and [[MARKUS]].
  
 
==Site contents==
 
==Site contents==

Revision as of 13:50, 30 April 2018

The Chinese Text Project (CTP; 中國哲學書電子化計劃) is an open-access digital library project providing a wide range of functionality for transcribing, navigating, and searching early Chinese texts. It aims at providing accessible and accurate versions of a wide range of texts,[1] particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, and the site is credited with providing one of the most comprehensive and accurate collections of classical Chinese texts on the Internet,[2][3] as well as being one of the most useful textual databases for scholars of early Chinese texts.[4][5]

By means of integrated functionality as well as external tools connected via Application Programming Interface, the system facilitates a wide range of digital analyses of pre-modern textual works. Together with the CTP API, a plugin system facilitates direct connections from within the user interface to other projects including Text Tools, TextRef, and MARKUS.

Site contents

Texts are divided into pre-Qin and Han texts, and post-Han texts, with the former categorized by school of thought and the latter by dynasty. The ancient (pre-Qin and Han) section of the database contains over 5 million Chinese characters, the post-Han database over 20 million characters, and the publicly editable wiki section over 5 billion characters.[6] Many texts also have English and Chinese translations, which are paired with the original text paragraph by paragraph as well as phrase by phrase for ease of comparison; this makes it possible for the system to be used as a useful scholarly research tool even by students with little or no knowledge of Chinese.[7]

As well as providing customized search functionality suited to Chinese texts,[8][9] the site also attempts to make use of the unique format of the web to offer a range of features relevant to sinologists, including an integrated dictionary, word lists, parallel passage information[10], scanned source texts, concordance and index data,[11] a metadata system, Chinese commentary display,[12] a published resources database, and a discussion forum in which threads can be linked to specific data on the site.[13][14] The "Library" section of the site also includes scanned copies of over 25 million pages of early Chinese texts,[15][16] linked line by line to transcriptions in the full-text database, many creating using Optical Character Recognition,[17] and edited and maintained using an online crowd-sourcing wiki system.[18][19] Textual data and metadata can also be exported using an Application Programming Interface, allowing integration with other online tools as well as use in text mining and digital humanities projects.[18][20]

References

  1. ↑ Elman, Benjamin A. "Classical Historiography for Chinese History: Databases & electronic texts". Princeton University. Retrieved June 3, 2016. 
  2. ↑ Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (北美中国哲学学者协会)
  3. ↑ Chris Fraser, Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
  4. ↑ http://warpweftandway.com/support-the-chinese-text-project/
  5. ↑ http://languagehat.com/chinese-text-project/
  6. ↑ http://ctext.org/system-statistics
  7. ↑ Connolly, Tim (2012). "Learning Chinese Philosophy with Commentaries". Teaching Philosophy. Philosophy Documentation Center. 35 (1): 1–18. Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  8. ↑ http://ctext.org/instructions/advanced-search
  9. ↑ http://ctext.org/faq/normalization
  10. ↑ Sturgeon, Donald (2017). "Unsupervised identification of text reuse in early Chinese literature". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Oxford University Press. Retrieved November 21, 2017. 
  11. ↑ Xu, Jiajin (2015). "Corpus-based Chinese studies: A historical review from the 1920s to the present". Chinese Language & Discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 6 (2): 218–244. Retrieved June 3, 2016. 
  12. ↑ Adkins, Martha A. (2016). "Web Review: Online Resources for the Study of Chinese Religion and Philosophy". Theological Librarianship. American Theological Library Association. 9 (2): 5–8. Retrieved November 7, 2016. 
  13. ↑ Holger Schneider and Jeff Tharsen, http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213
  14. ↑ http://ctext.org/introduction
  15. ↑ http://ctext.org/library.pl?if=en
  16. ↑ http://ctext.org/system-statistics
  17. ↑ Sturgeon, Donald (2017). Unsupervised Extraction of Training Data for Pre-Modern Chinese OCR. The Thirtieth International Flairs Conference. AAAI. Retrieved November 21, 2017. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 https://cpianalysis.org/2016/06/08/crowdsourcing-apis-and-a-digital-library-of-chinese/, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham
  19. ↑ http://ctext.org/instructions/ocr
  20. ↑ http://ctext.org/tools/api

External links

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