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.

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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

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation