Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy
| Title | Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy |
| Publication Type | Reports |
| Year of Publication | 2000 |
| Authors | Dorr BJ, Levow G-A, Lin D |
| Date Published | 2000/04// |
| Institution | Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park |
| Keywords | *CHINESE VERBS, *HIERARCHIES, *SEMANTICS, CHINA, CROSS CORRELATION, Information retrieval, INFORMATION SCIENCE, LANGUAGE, LEXICONS, linguistics, Machine translation, MULTILINGUAL, operations research, SYSTEMS APPROACH |
| 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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