동아시아 4개 언어 한자어 데이터베이스의 구축과 과제

Abstract

In this paper, we introduced the construction process and current status of the “CJKV Sinoxenic Words Database,” which connects Sinoxenic words in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, focusing on the meaning of vocabulary, and presented an attempt on the possibility of supplementation and expansion. This database was established for the purpose of analyzing and identifying the nature of East Asian civilization through common cultural assets called Chinese characters. In the existing database construction covering Sinoxenic words in various East Asian languages, the vocabulary of different languages was connected through notation, so it does not properly refelct the difference in register of Sinoxenic vocabulary in each language. The design of this database focused on semantic correspondence, not on the notation or form of Sinoxenic words. First of all, the Korean entry words, which is the reference point for database construction, was selected from the “Basic Korean Dictionary”. Subsequently, not only did it respond meaningfully to the Korean words, but it also selected Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese equivalents that did not have a large gap in terms of vocabulary regiter. The Sinoxenic words from four languages divided into four separate tables for each language, and the same ID was assigned to the corresponding Sinoxenic words. The vocabulary of each language table is connected to the structure of a Relational Database through an ID based on semantic response. In addition, in each vocabulary of the four East Asian languages, semantic information was cited and entered from a dictionary of a certain size or larger for each language. And based on that, tags representing the semantic attributes of vocabulary were included as separate fields. It can be pointed out that the limitation of this database is that it is a closed structure that contains information on a limited layer of individual vocabulary in a plan manner. In the future, it will be possible to increase the usability and academic value of this database by creating a dataset that describes the relationship between individual vocabulary in the form of RDF to facilitate visualization of data and linkage with other databases. In addition, it is necessary to aim for a cyclical model in which the research results on East Asian civiliazation created through this database are reflected in the expansion and supplementation of the database.