한자 어휘 의미망 개발을 위한 한자어 사전 표제어의 성격 고찰 – 『漢韓大辭典, 『韓國漢字語辭典, 『한국고전용어사전, 『옛편지낱말사전을 중심으로 –

Abstract

The aim of this present study is to examine the characteristics of headwords in digital Chinese dictionaries, which are the basic resources for developing a classical Chinese lexical semantic network, and to find out what needs to be discussed before developing it. It is practically impossible to examine all of the digital Chinese dictionaries, so we select 『Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary』 with largest number of headwords, the special dictionaries, 『Dictionary of KoreanChinese Characters』, 『Dictionary of Korean Literature’s Term』, 『Word Dictionary of Traditional Letter』 as the research subjects. The results of examining the characteristics of these dictionary headwrods are as follows. First, 『Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary』 and 『Dictionary of Korean-Chinese Characters』 have the greatest coverage of classical Chinese vocabulary, while 『Dictionary of Korean Literature’s Term』, 『Word Dictionary of Traditional Letter』 contain vocabulary of specific genres. Second, in all four dictionaries, the linguistic features of the headwords were not reflected in the macrostructure of them. Therefore, except for the head-characters of 『Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary』, which can be seen as a word, it seems that the four dictionaries contain headwords with quite a variety of linguistic characteristics, such as a word, idioms that acquire new meanings, patterns, typical syntactic constructions. Through the above research results on the characteristics of headwords, we were able to find out several points to discuss before developing a classical Chinese lexical semantic network. First, the selection of appropriate data according to the purpose of developing lexical semantic networks should be discussed. Second, it is necessary to discuss whether it is possible to select data with homogeneous linguistic characteristics from digital Chinese vocabulary data, and how to select it if possible.