Construction of a Chinese Semantic Dictionary by Integrating Two Heterogeneous Dictionaries: TongYiCi Cilin and HowNet

In order to build a practical semantic dictionary which will play an important role in the field of Chinese information processing, a Chinese semantic dictionary with a simple structure TH-CSD has been built in this paper. First, the architecture of the TH-CSD converted from TongYiCi Cilin extended version is introduced. Then the algorithm of integrating the data of HowNet based on synonyms or similar words into TH-CSD is proposed, and the automatic results produced by the proposed algorithms are manually corrected. Lastly, for better understanding of the data in the TH-CSD, an online system for the TH-CSD is introduced.