Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy
Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy
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2000-06-13
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Dorr, Bonnie J.
Levow, Gina-Anne
Lin, Dekang
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This paper addresses the problem of building conceptual resources for
multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale
construction of a semantic hierarchy for Chinese verbs, using
thematic-role information to create links between Chinese concepts and
English classes. We then present an approach to compensating for gaps in
the existing resources. The resulting hierarchy is used for a
multilingual lexicon for Chinese-English machine translation and
cross-language information retrieval applications.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-2000-17)
(Also cross-referemced as LAMP-TR-040)