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The basic vocabulary of language teaching is an important resource for use in the classroom, and for the compilation of teaching materials. In this paper, a hypothesis was proposed that every Chinese learner has a fuzzy set of Chinese basic vocabularies in their minds. We investigate 309 Chinese language learners and require them to automatically output their own basic words. We put forward a model for extracting basic words based on the above data. Through continuous improvement, we have achieved positive results and established the basic vocabulary knowledge base of Chinese language learners. This resource will provide a strong support for the vocabulary teaching and textbook compilation.
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The work was supported by Funding Project of Education Ministry for Development of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (16YJA740036); the support program of young and middle-aged backbone teachers for Beijing Language and Culture University; Wu Tong Innovation Platform of Beijing Language and Culture University (supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (16PT03, 14YJ160502)). The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers, which have improved the presentation.
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With your experience in learning Chinese, how do you think are the 300 most commonly used words for international students? For example, words concerning learning, survival, daily communication, daily activities and so on. Please fill in your own ideas in the form. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Wang, Z., Zhao, H., Zhang, J., Cao, C. (2018). Research on Basic Vocabulary Extraction Based on Chinese Language Learners. In: Hong, JF., Su, Q., Wu, JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_10
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