Creating a Bilingual Ontology: A Corpus-Based Approach for Aligning WordNet and HowNet
Marine Jacinthe Carpuat, Grace Ngai, Pascale Fung · 2002
The growing importance of multilingual information retrieval and machine translation has made multilingual ontologies an extremely valuable resource. Since the construction of an ontology from scratch is a very expensive and time consuming undertaking, it is attractive to explore ways of automatically aligning monolingual ontologies which already exist. This paper presents a language-independent, corpus-based method that borrows from techniques used in information retrieval and machine translation, for creating a bilingual ontology by aligning WordNet with an existing Chinese ontology called HowNet. We will present results to show that our method is capable of efficiently aligning ontologies with very different structures, as well as ontologies from languages that are very different from each other. 1