Building Chinese Interlanguage Corpus:The Case of Character Error-tagged Chinese Interlanguage Corpus of Sun Yat-Sen University

The paper reports the preliminary findings of character error-coded Chinese Interlanguage Corpus of Sun Yat-Sen University.The corpus is used as an illustration on some theoretical issues in interlanguage corpus building.The first one is the authenticity and continuity of the corpus.The second one is the principled tagging,especially the tagging for the characters errors.The wrong characters are created by Truetype Character Editor in Windows,and stored and displayed as images.The characters can be edited.The third issue is that the retrieval tool should be multifunctional and user-friendly to guarantee the efficient use of corpus data.The last issue is the development of the sub-system of corpora.