Chinese-English Semantic Resource Construction

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 Alternations), a Chinese conceptual database called HowNet, 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA458703

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation