With the widespread use of Chinese globally, the number of Chinese learners has been increasing, leading to various grammatical errors among beginners. Additionally, as domestic efforts to develop industrial informati...With the widespread use of Chinese globally, the number of Chinese learners has been increasing, leading to various grammatical errors among beginners. Additionally, as domestic efforts to develop industrial information grow, electronic documents have also proliferated. When dealing with numerous electronic documents and texts written by Chinese beginners, manually written texts often contain hidden grammatical errors, posing a significant challenge to traditional manual proofreading. Correcting these grammatical errors is crucial to ensure fluency and readability. However, certain special types of text grammar or logical errors can have a huge impact, and manually proofreading a large number of texts individually is clearly impractical. Consequently, research on text error correction techniques has garnered significant attention in recent years. The advent and advancement of deep learning have paved the way for sequence-to-sequence learning methods to be extensively applied to the task of text error correction. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of Chinese text grammar error correction technology, elaborates on its current research status, discusses existing problems, proposes preliminary solutions, and conducts experiments using judicial documents as an example. The aim is to provide a feasible research approach for Chinese text error correction technology.展开更多
Intercultural communication language plays a crucial role in our global tourism.When we are doing translation we are doing intercultural communication in a sense,so it is necessary for translators to have intercultura...Intercultural communication language plays a crucial role in our global tourism.When we are doing translation we are doing intercultural communication in a sense,so it is necessary for translators to have intercultural communication awareness and be sensitive to the cultural elements in translation.Taking the perspective of intercultural communication,this paper analyses the cultural elements in Chinese tourism material translation in terms of culturally-loaded words and terms,and presents certain translation techniques a translator can use to deal with culturally-loaded words in their translation.展开更多
Chinese classical literature is precious treasure of the world literature. In order to transmit and carry forward it, translation is an effective and necessary way, especially as the development ofglobalization and Ch...Chinese classical literature is precious treasure of the world literature. In order to transmit and carry forward it, translation is an effective and necessary way, especially as the development ofglobalization and China's economy. This paper mainly discusses the history, difficulties, ways and skills on translation of classical Chinese literary texts in this paper.展开更多
With the development of Internet technology,the explosive growth of Internet information presentation has led to difficulty in filtering effective information.Finding a model with high accuracy for text classification...With the development of Internet technology,the explosive growth of Internet information presentation has led to difficulty in filtering effective information.Finding a model with high accuracy for text classification has become a critical problem to be solved by text filtering,especially for Chinese texts.This paper selected the manually calibrated Douban movie website comment data for research.First,a text filtering model based on the BP neural network has been built;Second,based on the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF)vector space model and the doc2vec method,the text word frequency vector and the text semantic vector were obtained respectively,and the text word frequency vector was linearly reduced by the Principal Component Analysis(PCA)method.Third,the text word frequency vector after dimensionality reduction and the text semantic vector were combined,add the text value degree,and the text synthesis vector was constructed.Experiments show that the model combined with text word frequency vector degree after dimensionality reduction,text semantic vector,and text value has reached the highest accuracy of 84.67%.展开更多
Nowadays, China has witnessed vigorous development in tourism industry, and it has made a great contribution to Chinese economic growth. In order to draw more foreign tourists and demonstrate the unique charm and cult...Nowadays, China has witnessed vigorous development in tourism industry, and it has made a great contribution to Chinese economic growth. In order to draw more foreign tourists and demonstrate the unique charm and cultural deposits of Chinese landscapes, the translators should capitalize on appropriate translation methods so as to guarantee the translation quality.The thesis analyzes the guiding role of Skopos Theory in tourism texts with a lot of examples, taking the Hubei scenic-spot translation as a carrier, which has important guiding significanse to translators.展开更多
The sharp increase of the amount of Internet Chinese text data has significantly prolonged the processing time of classification on these data.In order to solve this problem,this paper proposes and implements a parall...The sharp increase of the amount of Internet Chinese text data has significantly prolonged the processing time of classification on these data.In order to solve this problem,this paper proposes and implements a parallel naive Bayes algorithm(PNBA)for Chinese text classification based on Spark,a parallel memory computing platform for big data.This algorithm has implemented parallel operation throughout the entire training and prediction process of naive Bayes classifier mainly by adopting the programming model of resilient distributed datasets(RDD).For comparison,a PNBA based on Hadoop is also implemented.The test results show that in the same computing environment and for the same text sets,the Spark PNBA is obviously superior to the Hadoop PNBA in terms of key indicators such as speedup ratio and scalability.Therefore,Spark-based parallel algorithms can better meet the requirement of large-scale Chinese text data mining.展开更多
Multi-label text categorization refers to the problem of categorizing text througha multi-label learning algorithm. Text classification for Asian languages such as Chinese isdifferent from work for other languages suc...Multi-label text categorization refers to the problem of categorizing text througha multi-label learning algorithm. Text classification for Asian languages such as Chinese isdifferent from work for other languages such as English which use spaces to separate words.Before classifying text, it is necessary to perform a word segmentation operation to converta continuous language into a list of separate words and then convert it into a vector of acertain dimension. Generally, multi-label learning algorithms can be divided into twocategories, problem transformation methods and adapted algorithms. This work will usecustomer's comments about some hotels as a training data set, which contains labels for allaspects of the hotel evaluation, aiming to analyze and compare the performance of variousmulti-label learning algorithms on Chinese text classification. The experiment involves threebasic methods of problem transformation methods: Support Vector Machine, Random Forest,k-Nearest-Neighbor;and one adapted algorithm of Convolutional Neural Network. Theexperimental results show that the Support Vector Machine has better performance.展开更多
We explore the techniques of utilizing N gram information to categorize Chinese text documents hierarchically so that the classifier can shake off the burden of large dictionaries and complex segmentation process...We explore the techniques of utilizing N gram information to categorize Chinese text documents hierarchically so that the classifier can shake off the burden of large dictionaries and complex segmentation processing, and subsequently be domain and time independent. A hierarchical Chinese text classifier is implemented. Experimental results show that hierarchically classifying Chinese text documents based N grams can achieve satisfactory performance and outperforms the other traditional Chinese text classifiers.展开更多
With the explosive growth of Internet text information,the task of text classification is more important.As a part of text classification,Chinese news text classification also plays an important role.In public securit...With the explosive growth of Internet text information,the task of text classification is more important.As a part of text classification,Chinese news text classification also plays an important role.In public security work,public opinion news classification is an important topic.Effective and accurate classification of public opinion news is a necessary prerequisite for relevant departments to grasp the situation of public opinion and control the trend of public opinion in time.This paper introduces a combinedconvolutional neural network text classification model based on word2vec and improved TF-IDF:firstly,the word vector is trained through word2vec model,then the weight of each word is calculated by using the improved TFIDF algorithm based on class frequency variance,and the word vector and weight are combined to construct the text vector representation.Finally,the combined-convolutional neural network is used to train and test the Thucnews data set.The results show that the classification effect of this model is better than the traditional Text-RNN model,the traditional Text-CNN model and word2vec-CNN model.The test accuracy is 97.56%,the accuracy rate is 97%,the recall rate is 97%,and the F1-score is 97%.展开更多
The Electronic Text Centre of the OpenUniversity of Hong Kong(OUHK)has been in full operationsince early 2001.It currently houses 7,300+electronictexts,including free electronic titles,electronic titlespurchased direc...The Electronic Text Centre of the OpenUniversity of Hong Kong(OUHK)has been in full operationsince early 2001.It currently houses 7,300+electronictexts,including free electronic titles,electronic titlespurchased directly from the market,and about,1,000 locallyproduced electronic titles.The locally produced titles are notavailable in the market but require local digitization andnegotiation with publishers with regard to the right to use(RTU)them so as to meet the learning needs of the OUHKcommunity.Nearl...展开更多
The issue of proper names recognition in Chinese text was discussed. An automatic approach based on association analysis to extract rules from corpus was presented. The method tries to discover rules relevant to exter...The issue of proper names recognition in Chinese text was discussed. An automatic approach based on association analysis to extract rules from corpus was presented. The method tries to discover rules relevant to external evidence by association analysis, without additional manual effort. These rules can be used to recognize the proper nouns in Chinese texts. The experimental result shows that our method is practical in some applications. Moreover, the method is language independent.展开更多
With the rapid growth of information retrieval technology,Chinese text classification,which is the basis of information content security,has become a widely discussed topic.In view of the huge difference compared with...With the rapid growth of information retrieval technology,Chinese text classification,which is the basis of information content security,has become a widely discussed topic.In view of the huge difference compared with English,Chinese text task is more complex in semantic information representations.However,most existing Chinese text classification approaches typically regard feature representation and feature selection as the key points,but fail to take into account the learning strategy that adapts to the task.Besides,these approaches compress the Chinese word into a representation vector,without considering the distribution of the term among the categories of interest.In order to improve the effect of Chinese text classification,a unified method,called Supervised Contrastive Learning with Term Weighting(SCL-TW),is proposed in this paper.Supervised contrastive learning makes full use of a large amount of unlabeled data to improve model stability.In SCL-TW,we calculate the score of term weighting to optimize the process of data augmentation of Chinese text.Subsequently,the transformed features are fed into a temporal convolution network to conduct feature representation.Experimental verifications are conducted on two Chinese benchmark datasets.The results demonstrate that SCL-TW outperforms other advanced Chinese text classification approaches by an amazing margin.展开更多
Short text classification is one of the common tasks in natural language processing.Short text contains less information,and there is still much room for improvement in the performance of short text classification model...Short text classification is one of the common tasks in natural language processing.Short text contains less information,and there is still much room for improvement in the performance of short text classification models.This paper proposes a new short text classification model ML-BERT based on the idea of mutual learning.ML-BERT includes a BERT that only uses word vector informa-tion and a BERT that fuses word information and part-of-speech information and introduces transmissionflag to control the information transfer between the two BERTs to simulate the mutual learning process between the two models.Experi-mental results show that the ML-BERT model obtains a MAF1 score of 93.79%on the THUCNews dataset.Compared with the representative models Text-CNN,Text-RNN and BERT,the MAF1 score improves by 8.11%,6.69%and 1.69%,respectively.展开更多
Chinese text categorization differs from English text categorization due to its much larger term set (of words or character n-grams), which results in very slow training and working of modern high-performance classi...Chinese text categorization differs from English text categorization due to its much larger term set (of words or character n-grams), which results in very slow training and working of modern high-performance classifiers. This study assumes that this high-dimensionality problem is related to the redundancy in the term set, which cannot be solved by traditional term selection methods. A greedy algorithm framework named "non-independent term selection" is presented, which reduces the redundancy according to string-level correlations. Several preliminary implementations of this idea are demonstrated. Experiment results show that a good tradeoff can be reached between the performance and the size of the term set.展开更多
The text watermarking is a feasible method to protect the copyright from being copied and tampered. In this paper, a text zero-watermarking algorithm is proposed based on the connection between the Chinese characters ...The text watermarking is a feasible method to protect the copyright from being copied and tampered. In this paper, a text zero-watermarking algorithm is proposed based on the connection between the Chinese characters and the Chinese phonetic alphabets. According to the predefined interval threshold, the proposed algorithm extracts the characteristics of the text content by valuing on the basis of the custom of Chinese phonetic alphabets. After being chaotic transformed, the algorithm combines the text characteristics with the embedded watermarking information in the Chinese text. The experimental results show that the watermarking's capability of preventing tampering is up to 0.1%, which demonstrates the strong robustness and resistance to aggressive behavior of the algorithm.展开更多
The mass data of social media and social networks generated by users play an important role in tracking users’sentiments and opinions online.A good polarity lexicon which can effectively improve the classification re...The mass data of social media and social networks generated by users play an important role in tracking users’sentiments and opinions online.A good polarity lexicon which can effectively improve the classification results of sentiment analysis is indispensable to analyze the user’s sentiments.Inspired by social cognitive theories,we combine basic emotion value lexicon and social evidence lexicon to improve traditional polarity lexicon.The proposed method obtains significant improvement in Chinese text sentiment analysis by using the proposed lexicon and new syntactic analysis method.展开更多
Well developed continuous speech recognition and synthesis systems demand a high quality continuous speech database which is compact and valid, and whose scientific design would benefit from incorporating linguistic a...Well developed continuous speech recognition and synthesis systems demand a high quality continuous speech database which is compact and valid, and whose scientific design would benefit from incorporating linguistic and phonetic knowledge. It is argued that at the present stage the database should be limited to read speech. To describe those very complex variabilities in continuous speech, the following speech units are proposed: (1) 401syllables without tone; (2) 415 inter-syllabic diphones, (3) 3035 inter-syllabic triphones, (4) 781 inter-syllabic final-initial structures. The 17 basic sefltence patterns in standard Chinese are summarized to cover the most important prosodic phenomena. By using the automatic method,2393 sentences and 388 phrases are selected by above phonetic rules from a large corpus, which includes People's Daily in recent years, TV play scripts and dictionary entries, as the reading text of continuous speech recognition database in standard Chinese. This set of sentences and pbrases covers 99.8% syllables without counting tones, 100% inter-syllable diphones, 99.6% inter-syllable triphones and 100% sentence patterns.展开更多
文摘With the widespread use of Chinese globally, the number of Chinese learners has been increasing, leading to various grammatical errors among beginners. Additionally, as domestic efforts to develop industrial information grow, electronic documents have also proliferated. When dealing with numerous electronic documents and texts written by Chinese beginners, manually written texts often contain hidden grammatical errors, posing a significant challenge to traditional manual proofreading. Correcting these grammatical errors is crucial to ensure fluency and readability. However, certain special types of text grammar or logical errors can have a huge impact, and manually proofreading a large number of texts individually is clearly impractical. Consequently, research on text error correction techniques has garnered significant attention in recent years. The advent and advancement of deep learning have paved the way for sequence-to-sequence learning methods to be extensively applied to the task of text error correction. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of Chinese text grammar error correction technology, elaborates on its current research status, discusses existing problems, proposes preliminary solutions, and conducts experiments using judicial documents as an example. The aim is to provide a feasible research approach for Chinese text error correction technology.
文摘Intercultural communication language plays a crucial role in our global tourism.When we are doing translation we are doing intercultural communication in a sense,so it is necessary for translators to have intercultural communication awareness and be sensitive to the cultural elements in translation.Taking the perspective of intercultural communication,this paper analyses the cultural elements in Chinese tourism material translation in terms of culturally-loaded words and terms,and presents certain translation techniques a translator can use to deal with culturally-loaded words in their translation.
文摘Chinese classical literature is precious treasure of the world literature. In order to transmit and carry forward it, translation is an effective and necessary way, especially as the development ofglobalization and China's economy. This paper mainly discusses the history, difficulties, ways and skills on translation of classical Chinese literary texts in this paper.
基金Supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2021YFQ0003).
文摘With the development of Internet technology,the explosive growth of Internet information presentation has led to difficulty in filtering effective information.Finding a model with high accuracy for text classification has become a critical problem to be solved by text filtering,especially for Chinese texts.This paper selected the manually calibrated Douban movie website comment data for research.First,a text filtering model based on the BP neural network has been built;Second,based on the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF)vector space model and the doc2vec method,the text word frequency vector and the text semantic vector were obtained respectively,and the text word frequency vector was linearly reduced by the Principal Component Analysis(PCA)method.Third,the text word frequency vector after dimensionality reduction and the text semantic vector were combined,add the text value degree,and the text synthesis vector was constructed.Experiments show that the model combined with text word frequency vector degree after dimensionality reduction,text semantic vector,and text value has reached the highest accuracy of 84.67%.
文摘Nowadays, China has witnessed vigorous development in tourism industry, and it has made a great contribution to Chinese economic growth. In order to draw more foreign tourists and demonstrate the unique charm and cultural deposits of Chinese landscapes, the translators should capitalize on appropriate translation methods so as to guarantee the translation quality.The thesis analyzes the guiding role of Skopos Theory in tourism texts with a lot of examples, taking the Hubei scenic-spot translation as a carrier, which has important guiding significanse to translators.
基金Project(KC18071)supported by the Application Foundation Research Program of Xuzhou,ChinaProjects(2017YFC0804401,2017YFC0804409)supported by the National Key R&D Program of China
文摘The sharp increase of the amount of Internet Chinese text data has significantly prolonged the processing time of classification on these data.In order to solve this problem,this paper proposes and implements a parallel naive Bayes algorithm(PNBA)for Chinese text classification based on Spark,a parallel memory computing platform for big data.This algorithm has implemented parallel operation throughout the entire training and prediction process of naive Bayes classifier mainly by adopting the programming model of resilient distributed datasets(RDD).For comparison,a PNBA based on Hadoop is also implemented.The test results show that in the same computing environment and for the same text sets,the Spark PNBA is obviously superior to the Hadoop PNBA in terms of key indicators such as speedup ratio and scalability.Therefore,Spark-based parallel algorithms can better meet the requirement of large-scale Chinese text data mining.
基金supported by the NSFC (Grant Nos. 61772281,61703212, 61602254)Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation [grant numberBK2160968]the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Edu-cationInstitutions (PAPD) and Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on AtmosphericEnvironment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET).
文摘Multi-label text categorization refers to the problem of categorizing text througha multi-label learning algorithm. Text classification for Asian languages such as Chinese isdifferent from work for other languages such as English which use spaces to separate words.Before classifying text, it is necessary to perform a word segmentation operation to converta continuous language into a list of separate words and then convert it into a vector of acertain dimension. Generally, multi-label learning algorithms can be divided into twocategories, problem transformation methods and adapted algorithms. This work will usecustomer's comments about some hotels as a training data set, which contains labels for allaspects of the hotel evaluation, aiming to analyze and compare the performance of variousmulti-label learning algorithms on Chinese text classification. The experiment involves threebasic methods of problem transformation methods: Support Vector Machine, Random Forest,k-Nearest-Neighbor;and one adapted algorithm of Convolutional Neural Network. Theexperimental results show that the Support Vector Machine has better performance.
基金Supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
文摘We explore the techniques of utilizing N gram information to categorize Chinese text documents hierarchically so that the classifier can shake off the burden of large dictionaries and complex segmentation processing, and subsequently be domain and time independent. A hierarchical Chinese text classifier is implemented. Experimental results show that hierarchically classifying Chinese text documents based N grams can achieve satisfactory performance and outperforms the other traditional Chinese text classifiers.
基金This work was supported by Ministry of public security technology research program[Grant No.2020JSYJC22ok]Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2021JKF215)+1 种基金Open Research Fund of the Public Security Behavioral Science Laboratory,People’s Public Security University of China(2020SYS03)Police and people build/share a smart community(PJ13-201912-0525).
文摘With the explosive growth of Internet text information,the task of text classification is more important.As a part of text classification,Chinese news text classification also plays an important role.In public security work,public opinion news classification is an important topic.Effective and accurate classification of public opinion news is a necessary prerequisite for relevant departments to grasp the situation of public opinion and control the trend of public opinion in time.This paper introduces a combinedconvolutional neural network text classification model based on word2vec and improved TF-IDF:firstly,the word vector is trained through word2vec model,then the weight of each word is calculated by using the improved TFIDF algorithm based on class frequency variance,and the word vector and weight are combined to construct the text vector representation.Finally,the combined-convolutional neural network is used to train and test the Thucnews data set.The results show that the classification effect of this model is better than the traditional Text-RNN model,the traditional Text-CNN model and word2vec-CNN model.The test accuracy is 97.56%,the accuracy rate is 97%,the recall rate is 97%,and the F1-score is 97%.
文摘The Electronic Text Centre of the OpenUniversity of Hong Kong(OUHK)has been in full operationsince early 2001.It currently houses 7,300+electronictexts,including free electronic titles,electronic titlespurchased directly from the market,and about,1,000 locallyproduced electronic titles.The locally produced titles are notavailable in the market but require local digitization andnegotiation with publishers with regard to the right to use(RTU)them so as to meet the learning needs of the OUHKcommunity.Nearl...
基金The National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program ( 863 )of China ( No2002AA119050)
文摘The issue of proper names recognition in Chinese text was discussed. An automatic approach based on association analysis to extract rules from corpus was presented. The method tries to discover rules relevant to external evidence by association analysis, without additional manual effort. These rules can be used to recognize the proper nouns in Chinese texts. The experimental result shows that our method is practical in some applications. Moreover, the method is language independent.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.U1936122)Primary Research&Developement Plan of Hubei Province (Nos.2020BAB101 and 2020BAA003).
文摘With the rapid growth of information retrieval technology,Chinese text classification,which is the basis of information content security,has become a widely discussed topic.In view of the huge difference compared with English,Chinese text task is more complex in semantic information representations.However,most existing Chinese text classification approaches typically regard feature representation and feature selection as the key points,but fail to take into account the learning strategy that adapts to the task.Besides,these approaches compress the Chinese word into a representation vector,without considering the distribution of the term among the categories of interest.In order to improve the effect of Chinese text classification,a unified method,called Supervised Contrastive Learning with Term Weighting(SCL-TW),is proposed in this paper.Supervised contrastive learning makes full use of a large amount of unlabeled data to improve model stability.In SCL-TW,we calculate the score of term weighting to optimize the process of data augmentation of Chinese text.Subsequently,the transformed features are fed into a temporal convolution network to conduct feature representation.Experimental verifications are conducted on two Chinese benchmark datasets.The results demonstrate that SCL-TW outperforms other advanced Chinese text classification approaches by an amazing margin.
文摘Short text classification is one of the common tasks in natural language processing.Short text contains less information,and there is still much room for improvement in the performance of short text classification models.This paper proposes a new short text classification model ML-BERT based on the idea of mutual learning.ML-BERT includes a BERT that only uses word vector informa-tion and a BERT that fuses word information and part-of-speech information and introduces transmissionflag to control the information transfer between the two BERTs to simulate the mutual learning process between the two models.Experi-mental results show that the ML-BERT model obtains a MAF1 score of 93.79%on the THUCNews dataset.Compared with the representative models Text-CNN,Text-RNN and BERT,the MAF1 score improves by 8.11%,6.69%and 1.69%,respectively.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos. 60573187 and 60321002)the National High-Tech Research and Development (863) Program of China (No.2007AA01Z148)
文摘Chinese text categorization differs from English text categorization due to its much larger term set (of words or character n-grams), which results in very slow training and working of modern high-performance classifiers. This study assumes that this high-dimensionality problem is related to the redundancy in the term set, which cannot be solved by traditional term selection methods. A greedy algorithm framework named "non-independent term selection" is presented, which reduces the redundancy according to string-level correlations. Several preliminary implementations of this idea are demonstrated. Experiment results show that a good tradeoff can be reached between the performance and the size of the term set.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91112003)Youth Foundation(31541311307)
文摘The text watermarking is a feasible method to protect the copyright from being copied and tampered. In this paper, a text zero-watermarking algorithm is proposed based on the connection between the Chinese characters and the Chinese phonetic alphabets. According to the predefined interval threshold, the proposed algorithm extracts the characteristics of the text content by valuing on the basis of the custom of Chinese phonetic alphabets. After being chaotic transformed, the algorithm combines the text characteristics with the embedded watermarking information in the Chinese text. The experimental results show that the watermarking's capability of preventing tampering is up to 0.1%, which demonstrates the strong robustness and resistance to aggressive behavior of the algorithm.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61303094)the Doctoral Fund ofMinistry of Education of China(No.20123108120027)+2 种基金the Program of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.14511107100)the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project(No.J50103)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(No.14YZ024)
文摘The mass data of social media and social networks generated by users play an important role in tracking users’sentiments and opinions online.A good polarity lexicon which can effectively improve the classification results of sentiment analysis is indispensable to analyze the user’s sentiments.Inspired by social cognitive theories,we combine basic emotion value lexicon and social evidence lexicon to improve traditional polarity lexicon.The proposed method obtains significant improvement in Chinese text sentiment analysis by using the proposed lexicon and new syntactic analysis method.
文摘Well developed continuous speech recognition and synthesis systems demand a high quality continuous speech database which is compact and valid, and whose scientific design would benefit from incorporating linguistic and phonetic knowledge. It is argued that at the present stage the database should be limited to read speech. To describe those very complex variabilities in continuous speech, the following speech units are proposed: (1) 401syllables without tone; (2) 415 inter-syllabic diphones, (3) 3035 inter-syllabic triphones, (4) 781 inter-syllabic final-initial structures. The 17 basic sefltence patterns in standard Chinese are summarized to cover the most important prosodic phenomena. By using the automatic method,2393 sentences and 388 phrases are selected by above phonetic rules from a large corpus, which includes People's Daily in recent years, TV play scripts and dictionary entries, as the reading text of continuous speech recognition database in standard Chinese. This set of sentences and pbrases covers 99.8% syllables without counting tones, 100% inter-syllable diphones, 99.6% inter-syllable triphones and 100% sentence patterns.