Computing the degree of difficulty in understanding Chinese compounds

This article provides criteria for differentiating the importance of semantic category according to the frequency of character use and the frequency of character use in compound formation. The article also observes the position of the semantic categories expressed by compound as one whole in the related semantic fields and its importance level. Based on the above work, the article finally provides a computational formula of degree of difficulty in compound understanding and the computational method of the semantic pattern in nominal compounds. This study contributes to the compiling of a word list in language teaching and the computation of the degree of difficulty in sentence understanding. This research method and its results may contribute to a deeper understanding of the internal structure of the semantic field and the internal semantic structure of compounds.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000255977400012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701LinguisticsLanguage & LinguisticsA&HCISSCI0ARTICLE2435-447