========================================================================================= The Chinese Lexical Database (CLD) is maintained by Ching-Chu Sun Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft/Quantitative Linguistics, Eberhard Karls University ========================================================================================= The Chinese Lexical Database (CLD) is compiled using MySQL version 5.5.41. Provided to the user is a database dump in .txt format. Additionally, a search interface written in PHP version 5.2.42 is available through http://www.chineselexicaldatabase.com. Here, users can also download database dumps in different formats. R users can download an .rda file to read the database into R. Users of other statistical software environments can download database dumps in .txt and .csv formats. The CLD contains words in simplified Chinese and their statistical measures in text formats for data analysis of psycholinguistic research. The CLD is available for free. If you use it for your research, please use the following information for citation: Lexical processing in simplified Chinese: an investigation using a new large-scale lexical database, unpublished doctoral dissertation, 2016, Eberhard Karls University. If you have any suggestions/corrections, please send an e-mail to ching-chu.sun@uni-tuebingen.de.