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

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

378

Lastpage

383

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSC.2009.71

Filename

5298657