Re: Letter frequency of Chinese pinyin

Dylan Sung wrote:
> Say, Juli Zhang (dungping), is it possible for you to provide me with a very
> long pinyin text, with all the tones as numbers (not superscripts or
> accents). Say, a text with at least 100,000 syllables. I guess it shouldn't
> be arcane either, ie. full of wierd technical stuff, eg. a chemistry text. A
> romanised novel, for instance. As with any statistics, the most important
> thing is the size of the sample.
>

Following is one. There are only aout 1000 syllables. I will add more
when I have time. I typed on Word, then copied it NotePad. From now
on I will type on NotePad directly, and add html tags.

http://www.pinyinology.com/pinyin/people_daily.html

I've found my manual transcripting is not efficient at all. My eyes
have to move back and forth between the document and computer monitor.
The sentence has to be memorized. It is a boring job, especially when
one does not like the content.

I understand you will add my text to your your own data, and do the
analysis on the whole pool. If we have to transcribe Chinese
characters into pinyin manually, I hope more volunteers can jump in.

Doing the transcription with computer program is much faster and
labor-saving. The problem is that quite a few characters have more
than one pronunciations, thus pinyin spellings. For instance, a
character is both 'hang' and 'xing'. Is it possible that when it is
encountered the first time, the computer transcribes it as 'hang', and
'xing' the second time. This way is still not so accurate as manual
transcription, but better than assigning only one spelling to the
character.

>
> Cheers,
> Dyl.

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