Knowledge Representation for Comparative Constructions in Extended-HowNet

In this paper, we propose an approach for studying the semantic representations of comparison words and comparative constructions based on the framework of E-HowNet. Our objective is to determine how the semantic composition mechanism works. The proposed method establishes a mapping between grammatical structures and fine-grained event structures for comparative constructions. We encode the event structures of comparative constructions as part of the representations of comparison words. The fine-grained semantic roles are adopted from FrameNet. A semantic composition mechanism is then developed to unify word sense representations under syntactic constraints. Our ultimate goal is to achieve fully automatic semantic composition.