清风出袖
高级会员
HOWNET AND THE COMPUTATION OF MEANING
(With CD-Rom)
by Zhendong Dong & Qiang Dong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
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 describes the attraction of HowNets computability of meanings and how a software of meaning computation can collect so many relevant words and expressions of the? or give a similarity value between any two words or expressions.
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 ?Meaning Computation Device of HowNet
Secondary Resources ?Meaning Computation Devices of HowNet
HowNet as 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.
320pp (approx.) Pub. date: Scheduled Summer 2006
ISBN 981-256-491-8 US$64 / £37
(With CD-Rom)
by Zhendong Dong & Qiang Dong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
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 describes the attraction of HowNets computability of meanings and how a software of meaning computation can collect so many relevant words and expressions of the? or give a similarity value between any two words or expressions.
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 ?Meaning Computation Device of HowNet
Secondary Resources ?Meaning Computation Devices of HowNet
HowNet as 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.
320pp (approx.) Pub. date: Scheduled Summer 2006
ISBN 981-256-491-8 US$64 / £37