Construction of Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy for Information
Retrieval
Construction of Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy for Information
Retrieval
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2000-06-10
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Levow, Gina-Anne
Dorr, Bonnie
Lin, Dekang
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Abstract
This paper describes an approach to large-scale construction of a semantic
hierarchy for Chinese verbs. Leveraging off of an existing Chinese
conceptual database called HowNet and a Levin-based English verb
classification, we use thematic-role information to create links between
Chinese concepts and English classes. The resulting hierarchy is used for
multilingual lexicons in an English-Chinese cross-language information
retrieval application. We demonstrate a structured syntax interface that
exploits this large-scale hierarchy and its linkages to WordNet for
English-Chinese cross-language information retrieval.
(Also cross-referenced asUMIACS-TR-2000-36)
(Also cross-referenced as LAMP-TR-043)