Construction of a Chinese-English WordNet and its application to CLIR

This paper integrates five linguistic resources, including Cilin, a Chinese-English dictionary, ASBC corpus, SemCor, and WordNet, to construct a Chinese-English WordNet. The result is employed in Chinese-English information retrieval. Under TREC-6 text collection, TREC topics 301-350, and Smart information retrieval system, the model for CLIR achieves 69.23% of monolingual information retrieval. It also gains 10.02% increase relative to a model that resolves translation ambiguity and target polysemy together using a Chinese-English dictionary.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: IRAL
• Authors: Hsin-Hsi Chen, Chi-Ching Lin, Wen-Cheng Lin
• Keywords: Chinese-English Information Retrieval, Chinese-English WordNet, Information Management, Information Retrieval, IRAL 2000