This corpus consists of four cells, by which variation is examined. The two columns of this four cell structure represent the Mandarin Chinese of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China on Taiwan respectively. PERL scripts have been written to extract slices of text containing the desired classifier from the corpora. A semi-automated main process allows the researcher to identify the noun phrase associated with a classifier and enter in romanised hanyu pinyin form, storing the result in a file. Combinations of sorting utilities in Microsoft Word, macros in the same software, and PERL scripts are used to collate and arrange the data.
Reference is made to a native-speaker who has been trained in linguistics when necessary.
Here is the thesis, if you should ever want to download it. It's all in Word 2.0c format.