• DocumentCode
    2666283
  • Title

    HowNet - a hybrid language and knowledge resource

  • Author

    Dong, Zhendong ; Dong, Qiang

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Centre of Comput. & Language Eng., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    26-29 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    820
  • Lastpage
    824
  • Abstract
    HowNet is an online common-sense knowledge base unveiling inter-conceptual relations and inter-attribute relations of concepts as connoting in Chinese and English bilingual lexicons. Since it was released in 1999, HowNet has become more and more popular and been applied in various areas of NLP, related to both Chinese and English. We show a general picture of HowNet, discuss its theory and peculiarities.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computational linguistics; knowledge based systems; natural languages; Chinese language; English language; HowNet; bilingual lexicons; natural language processing; online common-sense knowledge base; ontology; semantics; Knowledge based systems; Natural languages; Ontologies; Taxonomy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing, China
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7902-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NLPKE.2003.1276017
  • Filename
    1276017