Hownet and the Computation of Meaning (With Cd-Rom).
Title:
Hownet and the Computation of Meaning (With Cd-Rom).
Author:
Dong, Zhendong.
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9789812774675
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1 online resource (318 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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 processing and a panoramic description of HowNet as a case study. Readers will appreciate the uniqueness of the discussion on the definitions of the top-level classes HowNet specifies, such as things, parts, attributes, time, space, events and attribute-values, and the relations among them, and also the depth of the authors' philosophy behind HowNet. The book presents the attraction of HowNet's computability of meanings and describes how a software of the computation of meaning can collect so many relevant words and expressions and give a similiarity value between any two words or expressions. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Meaning and its Representation (47 KB). Contents: Meaning and Its Representation; Overview of HowNet; Sememes; Concept Classification and Property Description; Semantic Roles; Taxonomy; Knowledge Dictionary of HowNet; Knowledge Database Mark-Up Language and Concept Defining; Revelation of Relations in HowNet; Browser - HowNet's Device of Computation of Meaning; Secondary Resources - HowNet's Devices of Computation of Meaning; HowNet as a Software; New Resources Activating New Technology - Some Applications of HowNet; Some Views of Chinese Through HowNet. Readership: Researchers and developers in IT, natural language processing, linguistics, artificial intelligence; Chinese learners; English/Chinese translators.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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