2023, Vol. 5, Issue 12, Part A

Corpus construction is the basis for in-depth language research, and the standardized operation of the corpus construction process is a necessary condition to ensure the quality of the corpus. Taking the building process of Vanadium Titanium Academic English Corpus as an example, this paper explores the construction process and some ideas for standardized construction of the corpus, and puts forward corresponding solutions to common problems in the process of building the corpus, aiming at forming a mature database building scheme. The results show that the process of corpus construction provided in this paper is feasible.

Background: English for specific purposes (ESP) has unique structure and characteristics in terms of expression, idioms and textual rhetoric, and contains professional information in specific fields and disciplines. ESP corpus is not only an important object of corpus linguistics research, but also an important carrier of professional knowledge in specific industries. The development of science and technology increasingly requires language learning and research to be more integrated into the professional field. For a professional document, the largest information carrier is professional vocabulary, not ordinary vocabulary. Therefore, the establishment of ESP English corpus is a necessary condition for the in-depth study of English for specific industries.

Subjects and Methods: In order to build a qualified Vanadium Titanium Academic English Corpus, a construction process was designed to build this corpus. The whole construction workflow was divided into four steps. The first step is to collect and download articles. This part determines the source, content quality and size of the corpus. The second step is to clear up the corpus. The purpose of this part is to discuss how to form a pure language text. The third step is the naming of the corpus text file. This part mainly provides convenience for future information retrieval through scientific naming. The fourth step is text annotation. Through the annotation of the key information of the text, the future retrieval becomes possible, and the text has added value. The whole four steps provide a common means for the construction of corpus.

Results: Corpus construction planning with clear planning, reasonable division of labor and scientific content arrangement can effectively realize the purpose of corpus construction.

Conclusions: The successful completion of corpus construction shows that this construction process is feasible. At the same time, it also shows that the specific construction operation under this process can ensure the successful realization of the objectives of each stage. This general corpus building method can be used to build various other types of corpora. The tagging of the corpus improves the research value of the corpus and makes the corpus widely used in scientific research, dictionary editing, teaching and other fields.