Hantology: conceptual system discovery based on orthographic convention

Chou, Ya-Min; Huang, Chu‐Ren

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“…Based on Hantology [5], [51], the four radical-encoded concepts shared by the group of characters in Table 5 can be mapped directly to IEEE SUMO [2]. The mapping result, showed as trimmed tree without the non-relevant branches, in presented as Figure 5.…”

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“…From the point of view that radicals are sub-lexical constructions, our approach focuses on incorporating event structures in the task of metaphor detection in Chinese datasets. Our proposal relies crucially on the fact that the Chinese writing system can be viewed as an ontological system based on the conceptual classes defined and formed by radicals as basic components of characters [5]. As basic unit of the writing system, each character typically contains a single semantic radical which represents a basic concept shared by all characters with that radical.…”

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Metaphor Detection: Leveraging Culturally Grounded Eventive Information

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Metaphors are compact packages of information with rich cultural background information. As one of the most powerful linguistic forms with non-literal meaning, metaphor detection in natural language processing can be both challenging and rewarding. We propose an innovative method for metaphor detection and classification leveraging culturally grounded eventive information. This culturally grounded information is organized based on ontological structure, which in turn facilitates further semantic processing of the result of our classification. As a culturally bound ontological system, the Chinese writing system has basic concepts organized according to semantic radicals, which are symbols containing rich eventive information that represent categorical concepts. This paper illustrates the basic design principles of applying ontological structures in metaphor detection by taking into account radicals representing body parts, instruments, materials, and movements. Our approach to leverage the eventive information of the Chinese writing system in metaphor detection is based on the fact that such information is available as an integral part of the writing system of any text. We hypothesize that eventive information can be accessed through the ''embodied'' source domain information represented by the radicals without syntactic processing or annotation. In terms of the theory of metaphor, we further hypothesize that eventive types in the embodied source domain maps to, and hence can help to predict, eventive meaning in the target domain of metaphor. Our studies show that the event information encoded in lexical items can facilitate classification of metaphoric events and identification of metaphors in Chinese texts effectively. We achieved improvements in Chinese metaphor detection over state-of-the-art approaches in our first classification experiment, and our proposed approach is shown to be generalizable in a second experiment involving new sets of characters with the same radicals.

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Metaphor Detection: Leveraging Culturally Grounded Eventive Information

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“…Huang et al 2010b), the fact that Chinese orthography explicitly designate radicals as semantic primitives provides a new perspective on the possible relation between language and ontology. It has also previously been demonstrated that Chinese orthography is a conventionalized knowledge representation system (Hantology, Chou and Huang 2010). In addition, Huang et al 黃居仁等 (2013a) and Huang et al (2013b) showed that the ontological system with radicals representing semantic primitives is driven by Aristotle's four causes and have the generative power similar to Pustejovsky's (1995) qualia structure.…”

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“…In addition, Huang et al 黃居仁等 (2013a) and Huang et al (2013b) showed that the ontological system with radicals representing semantic primitives is driven by Aristotle's four causes and have the generative power similar to Pustejovsky's (1995) qualia structure. This is illustrated by Figure 3, adapted from Chou and Huang (2010).…”

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Notes on Chinese grammar and ontology: the endurant/perdurant dichotomy and Mandarin D-M compounds

Huang

2015

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“…Yong and Peng 2008;Tono 2006;Katre 1980). Xu's (121) ShuowenJiezi, for instance, established the radical (semantic primitive) based lexicographical system for dictionaries in the Sinosphere and was adapted in recent works to link dictionaries to an ontology (e.g., Chou and Huang 2010). In this sense, the western tradition of lexicography, however influential it may be in present-day lexicography, should be re-evaluated in the light of Asian lexicography in a historical perspective.…”

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Lexicography in Asia: its future and challenges

Tono¹

2014

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Hantology: conceptual system discovery based on orthographic convention

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Metaphor Detection: Leveraging Culturally Grounded Eventive Information

Metaphor Detection: Leveraging Culturally Grounded Eventive Information

Notes on Chinese grammar and ontology: the endurant/perdurant dichotomy and Mandarin D-M compounds

Lexicography in Asia: its future and challenges

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