To the masses of Minorities in the frontier areas of China, proficiency in the Chinese language tool is not only conducive to the common development and prosperity of all nationalities in our country, but also an important cornerstone for ensuring the smooth running of the "Belt and Road" strategy. However, for a long time, the primary means of monitoring Chinese learning in frontier minority areas is the Chinese Minority Chinese Proficiency Test (MHK). The disadvantage of this method lies in the fact that the test scores of written and oral exams are mostly rough and monotonous. They fail to fully assess the mastery of Chinese in minority areas and accurately reflect the integration of minority languages and Chinese. Therefore, this paper argues that there is an urgent need to establish a dynamic text corpus of Chinese Minorities in frontier areas, which can not only be used to monitor the use of Chinese and bilingual integration in local areas, but also be used in test selection, difficulty control, vocabulary development, and provide reference for the Minority Chinese test, provide more targeted suggestions for Chinese teaching in the "Belt and Road" region, and provide data support for the security of national language and character at the same time.
@InProceedings{ZHOU18.4, author = {Xuan Zhou and Yinghao Chang}, title = {A Tentative Idea of Multi-modal Corpus Applied to National Minority Chinese Proficiency Test in China }, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Erhong Yang and Le Sun}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-29-0}, language = {english} }
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