In this paper, we propose Extended HowNet 2.0 – an entity-relation common-sense representation model. Comparing to HowNet and Extended HowNet, E-HowNet 2.0 has the following improvements: (a) Reorganizing the hierarchical structure of primitives and basic concepts; (b) Rich lexical information: In addition to sense definition, each entry of lexical sense may also include operational expressions as well as semantic functions which facilitate future semantic composition processes. (c) Improvement of sense definitions and sense definitions for basic concepts. (d) Developing a new automatic ontology reconstruction system. (e) Developing a query system called E-HowNet Relation Database for flexibly clustering concepts.We hope Extended HowNet 2.0 can bring significant benefits to the community of lexical semantics and natural language understanding.
@InProceedings{MA18.547, author = {Wei-Yun Ma and Yueh-Yin Shih}, title = "{Extended HowNet 2.0 – An Entity-Relation Common-Sense Representation Model}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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