Title :
Construction of a Bilingual Cognitive Property Knowledgebase
Author :
Li, Bin ; Kuang, Haibo ; Chen, Xiaohe ; Tang, Xuri ; Chen, Chen
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technol., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Every language has its own culture background, thus it is difficult to translate or retrieve figurative expressions across languages. Based on the metaphoric cognition and feature analysis theory, we collect data from the web to construct the Chinese-English bilingual lexical cognitive property knowledgebase linked to "HowNet". By comparing the differences of the cognitive property, we get some answers to the core linguistic problem "is the metaphor universal?" Then, we put forward a novel method to gain the metaphoric property of a word by its translation in another language. The paper lays a solid foundation for semantic analysis and computing of lexical cognitive property.
Keywords :
information retrieval; language translation; natural language processing; semantic Web; Chinese-English bilingual lexical cognitive property knowledgebase; HowNet; Web; feature analysis theory; figurative expression retrieval; figurative expression translation; linguistic problem; metaphoric cognition; metaphoric property; semantic analysis; Contracts; Educational institutions; Presses; Search engines; Semantics; Software; Vehicles; cognitive property; lexical semantics; linguistic knowledgebase; metaphor;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS), 2011 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hainan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2008-6
DOI :
10.1109/CIS.2011.244