A Consideration about Development of A Thesaurus of Modern Chinese
SU Xin-chun · Zhongwen xinxi xuebao · 2008
A Thesaurus of Modern Chinese(TMC) inherits the tradition of concept classification since Synonym Dictionary to reflect conception relation of the whole society and human recognition.It embodies more than 80 000 modern Chinese words with high frequency and constructs a Five-levels semantic classification system with 9 classes in the first-level,62 in the second-level,518 in the third-level,2 076 in the forth-level and 12 613 fifth-level classifications.This kind of semantic classification emphasizes on the governing function from upper semantic levels to subordinate levels,the coverage function of the subordinate semantic levels to the upper levels and the complementary function between the neighboring semantic levels.