Research on Language Data and Its Functions in the Digital Era

Abstract

With the advent of digital economy era, data has become one of important production factors for national economy. Language data, as an essential part of data, consists of language structural data and language informative data. Language structural data refers to language structure units and rules such as phonetics, words, vocabulary, and grammar, while language informative data encompasses text discourse, conversations, and parallel corpora which are discourse data formed through human language use. Roughly speaking, the functions of language data consists of the function of living factor and that of production factor, which concerns the different functions of language data in daily life and social production. The function of production factor entails utilizing machine-readable data as a foundation to data mining, knowledge extracting, insights forming and their use in economic activity. It extends its function from essential living factor to production factor, driven by the national big data strategy, high-quality economic development and digital technology iteration of the People's Republic of China.