Theoretical Findings of HowNet
Hao Chang-ling · 2007
It was over 8years since the release of the first version of HowNet.Lots of people both at homw and abroad have already been familiar with it.Thus it is thought to be high time for us to discuss its theoretical issues.The paper elaborates the following theoretical findings:(1) HowNet's understanding of knowledge,(2) the acquisition and representation of knowledge,(3) the biaxial theory of event classification,(4) semantic roles,(5) HowNet's knowledge database mark-up language.The paper also presents the powerful capability of computation of meaning and the latest achievements in the development.HowNet will become the infrastructure of some human language technologies,such as natural language search.