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Populating FrameNet with Chinese Verbs Mapping Bilingual Ontological WordNet with FrameNet

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Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead (ICCPOL 2006)

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This paper describes the construction of a linguistic knowledge base using Frame Semantics, instantiated with Chinese Verbs imported from the Chinese-English Bilingual Ontological WordNet (BOW). The goal is to use this knowledge base to assist with semantic role labeling. This is accomplished through the mapping of FrameNet and WordNet and a novel verb selection restriction using both the WordNet inter-relations and the concept classification in the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). The FrameNet WordNet mapping provides a channel for Chinese verbs to interface with Frame Semantics. By taking the mappings between verbs and frames as learning data, we attempt to identify subsuming SUMO concepts for each frame and further identify more Chinese verbs on the basis of synset inter-relations in WordNet.

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  1. Department of Chinese Translation and Linguistics, City university of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ian C. Chow

  2. The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Jonathan J. Webster

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 630-0192, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

    Yuji Matsumoto

  2. Dept of ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, Urbana, USA

    Richard W. Sproat

  3. Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

    Kam-Fai Wong

  4. State Key Lab of Intelligent Tech. & Sys., Tsinghua University,  

    Min Zhang

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Chow, I.C., Webster, J.J. (2006). Populating FrameNet with Chinese Verbs Mapping Bilingual Ontological WordNet with FrameNet. In: Matsumoto, Y., Sproat, R.W., Wong, KF., Zhang, M. (eds) Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead. ICCPOL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11940098_17

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