Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA458682

Entities

People

  • Bonnie J. Dorr
  • Dekang Lin
  • Gina-anne Levow

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Construction
  • Hierarchies
  • Information Operations
  • Information Retrieval
  • Language
  • Machine Translation
  • Universities
  • Words (Language)

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation