Title :
Building a Database of Related Concepts of Mandarin Metaphors Based on WordNet and SUMO
Author :
Chung, Siaw-Fong ; Chen, Chun-Hung ; Chao, F. Y August
Author_Institution :
Dept. of English, Nat. Chengchi Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The ontological concepts for 1,256 Mandarin metaphor types (such as cheng2zhang3 ´grow/growth´ and jian4she4 ´construct/construction´) were stored in a database in the form of metaphor-concept pairings. In each pair, a Mandarin metaphor type is paired with ontological concepts in English. Based on the relations given in these pairings, a database of relational concept was created. Calculation of co-appearance of concepts can be undertaken using the database. The work will contribute to analysis of conceptual relatedness, semantic networking and relatedness of Mandarin metaphors.
Keywords :
natural language processing; relational databases; semantic networks; SUMO; WordNet; conceptual relatedness; english; mandarin metaphors; metaphor-concept pairings; ontological concepts; relational concept database; semantic networking; Chaos; Computational linguistics; Concrete; Data mining; Dictionaries; Helium; Management information systems; Ontologies; Relational databases; Search engines; Chinese; English; SUMO; WordNet; concept; database; metaphor;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic Computing, 2009. ICSC '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4962-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3800-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSC.2009.71
