Chinese-English Semantic Resource Construction
Chinese-English Semantic Resource Construction
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2000-06-13
Authors
Dorr, Bonnie J.
Levow, Gina-Anne
Lin, Dekang
Thomas, Scott
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Abstract
We describe an approach to large-scale construction of a semantic lexicon
for Chinese verbs. We leverage off of three existing resources--a
classification of English verbs called EVCA (English Verbs Classes and
Alterations) [Levin, 1993], a Chinese conceptual database called HowNet
[Zhendong, 1988c, Zhendong, 1988b] (http://www.how-net.com), and a large
machine-readable dictionary called Optilex. The resulting lexicon is used
for determining appropriate word senses in applications such as machine
translation and cross-language information retrieval.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-2000-27)
(Also cross-referenced as LAMP-TR-044)