Title :
HowNet - a hybrid language and knowledge resource
Author :
Dong, Zhendong ; Dong, Qiang
Author_Institution :
Res. Centre of Comput. & Language Eng., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
HowNet is an online common-sense knowledge base unveiling inter-conceptual relations and inter-attribute relations of concepts as connoting in Chinese and English bilingual lexicons. Since it was released in 1999, HowNet has become more and more popular and been applied in various areas of NLP, related to both Chinese and English. We show a general picture of HowNet, discuss its theory and peculiarities.
Keywords :
Internet; computational linguistics; knowledge based systems; natural languages; Chinese language; English language; HowNet; bilingual lexicons; natural language processing; online common-sense knowledge base; ontology; semantics; Knowledge based systems; Natural languages; Ontologies; Taxonomy;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7902-0
DOI :
10.1109/NLPKE.2003.1276017
