A Review on the Weakness of UAM Corpus Tool

Due to the scarcity of evaluation on UAM in previous studies and lack of knowledge of UAM corpus tool for beginners, this paper carries out a comprehensive investigation and makes a review on its merits and demerits, especially demerits. A lot of studies related to UAM from various perspectives within linguistics, mainly describe it as a research instrument rather than a research object. In the meantime, an evaluation standard has been employed in the assessment of UAM corpus tool in this study. According to these principles and other scholars’ analysis on UAM, its main weakness contains limited access, restricted applied domain, not sufficiently accurate automatic and manual annotation, among others. In the longer term, this research will help users to understand and utilize UAM corpus tool critically and provide some inspirations to avoid the influence of its weakness as far as possible, for the sake of reliability and validity of their future study.