E-HowNet: the Expansion of HowNet
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چکیده
HowNet is an on-line common-sense knowledge base unveiling inter-conceptual relations and inter-attribute relations of concepts as connoting in lexicons of the Chinese and their English equivalents [1]. Each concept is represented and understood by their definition and association links to other concepts. To Compare with WordNet, HowNet’s architecture provides richer information apart from hyponymy relations. It also enriches relational links between words via encoded feature relations. The advantages of the HowNet are a) inherent properties of concepts are derived from encoded feature relations in addition to hypernym concepts, and b) information regarding conceptual differences between different concepts and information regarding morph-semantic structure are encoded. HowNet’s advantages make it an effective electronic dictionary in NLP area. In recent years, HowNet has been applied to the researches of word similarity calculation[2], machine translation[3], and Information Retrieval[4] etc.
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