Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy
Bonnie Jean Dorr, Gina‐Anne Levow, Dekang Lin · 2000
: 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. Acknowledgements: The University of Maryland authors are supported, in part, by PFF/PECASE Award IRI-9629108, DOD Contract MDA904-96-C-1250, and DARPA/ITO Contract N66001-97C -8540. Dekang Lin is supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant OGP121338. We are indebted to Nizar Habash, Maria Katsova, and Scott Thomas for their assistance with experimental runs on the data and their useful commentary and aid in the preparation of this do...