Construction of Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy for Information Retrieval
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 linages to WordNet for English-Chinese cross-language information retrieval.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA458694
Entities
People
- Bonnie J. Dorr
- Dekang Lin
- Gina-anne Levow
Organizations
- University of Maryland