The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC) is designed as a Chinese match for the FLOB and FROWN corpora for modern British and American English. The corpus is suitable for use in both monolingual research into modern Mandarin Chinese and cross
LCMC语料库是一个100万词次（按每1.6个汉字对应一个英文单词折算）的现代汉语书面语通用型平衡语料库。起先建立时，它是作为英国经社研究委员会资助项目Contrasting Tense and Aspect in English and Chinese的部分成果。肖忠华最初的设想是要将其建成同FLOB和FROWN对应的现代汉语语料库。筹建这样的一个语料库的另一个动因是：尽管已经有很多汉语语料库存在，但却没有一个完全免费对公众开放的平衡的汉语语料库
