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Hownet and the Computation of Meaning (With Cd-Rom).

It is widely acknowledged that natural language processing, as an indispensable means for information technology, requires the strong support of world knowledge as well as linguistic knowledge. This book is a theoretical exploration into the extra-linguistic knowledge needed for natural language pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dong, Zhendong
Other Authors: Dong, Qiang
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.
Subjects:
HowNet (Computer file)
Semantics > Data processing.
Lexicology > Data processing.
Phraseology > Data processing.
Natural language processing (Computer science)
Machine translating.
Chinese language > Data processing.
English language > Data processing.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789812774675
981277467X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Meaning and Its Representation
  • 1.1 Concept Relation Net (CRN)
  • 1.2 Attribute Relation Net (ARN)
  • 2. Overview of HowNet
  • 2.1 The History of HowNet
  • 2.2 The Nature of HowNet
  • 2.3 The Architecture of HowNet
  • 3. Sememes
  • 3.1 What is a Sememe
  • 3.2 Acquisition of a Sememe set
  • 3.3 Inspiration from Chinese
  • 4. Concept Classification and Property Description
  • 4.1 Concept Classification
  • 4.2 Arbitrariness and Purpose of Classification
  • 4.3 Classification by Top-down or Bottom-up
  • 4.4 General Guidelines for Concept Classification in HowNet
  • 4.5 Root-nodes in HowNet
  • 5. Semantic Roies
  • 5.1 What is a Semantic Role
  • 5.2 Semantic Roles in HowNet
  • 6. Taxonomy
  • 6.1 Event Taxonomy
  • 6.2 Entity Taxonomy
  • 6.3 Attribute Taxonomy
  • 6.4 Attribute-value Taxonomy
  • 6.5 Secondary Features List
  • 6.6 Antonymous and Converse Sememes Lists
  • 7. Knowledge Dictionary of HowNet
  • 7.1 Lexical Entry
  • 7.2 Part-of-Speech(POS)
  • 7.3 Example
  • 7.4 Concept Definition
  • 8. Knowiedge Database Mark-up Language and Concept Defining
  • 8.1 Extended BNF of KDML
  • 8.2 Identifiers of KDML and Referent Signs
  • 8.3 Defining Regulations
  • 8.4 Principles of Defining Concepts
  • 9. Revelation of Relations in HowNet
  • 9.1 Explicit Relations
  • 9.2 Implicit Relations
  • 9.3 Axiomatic Relation of Events and Role Shifting
  • 10. Browser
  • HowNet's Device of Computation of Meaning
  • 10.1 Dictionary Page
  • 10.2 Taxonomy Page
  • 11. Secondary Resources
  • HowNet's Devices of Computation of Meaning
  • 11.1 Concept Relevance Calculator (CRC)
  • 11.2 Concept Similarity Measure (CSM)
  • 11.3 Query Expansion Tool (QET)
  • 12. HowNet as a Software
  • 12.1 Data Construction
  • 12.2 Application Program Interface (API) of HowNet.
  • 13. New Resources Activating New Technology
  • Some Appiications of HowNet
  • 13.1 Word Sense Disambiguation(WSD)
  • 13.2 Question Analysis in Question Answering
  • 13.3 Domain-specific Seed Word List Updating
  • 14. Some Views of Chinese Through HowNet
  • 14.1 Words or No Words
  • 14.2 Part-of-Speech
  • Semantics-first
  • 14.3 Aspect of Chinese Verbs
  • Bibiiography
  • Appendix
  • Index.

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