Web Based Collection and Comparison of Cognitive Properties in English and Chinese
Bin Li, Jiajun Chen, Yingjie Zhang · 2012
Cognitive properties of words are very useful in figurative language understanding, language acquisition and translation. To overcome the subjectivity and low efficiency in manual construction of such database, we propose a web-based method for automatic collection and analysis of cognitive properties. The method employs simile templates to query the search engines. With the help of a bilingual dictionary, the method is able to collect tens of thousands of “vehicleadjective” items of high quality. Frequencies are then used to obtain the common and independent cognitive properties automatically. The method can be extended conveniently to other languages to construct multi-lingual cognitive property knowledgebase. 1