Chinese-English Semantic Resource Construction
Bonnie Jean Dorr, Gina‐Anne Levow, Dekang Lin, Scott C. Thomas · 2000
We describe an approach to large-scale construction of a semantic lexicon for Chinese verbs.We leverage off of three existing resourcesa classification of English verbs called EVCA (English Verbs Classes and Alternations) (Levin, 1993), a Chinese conceptual database called HowNet (Zhendong, 1988c; Zhendong, 1988b; Zhendong, 1988a) (http://www .how-net.com),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.