When Conset meets Synset: A Preliminary Survey of an Ontological Lexical Resource based on Chinese Characters. poster paper at COLING/ACL 2006

This paper describes an on-going project concerning with an ontological lexical re-source based on the abundant conceptual information grounded on Chinese charac-ters. The ultimate goal of this project is set to construct a cognitively sound and com-putationally effective character-grounded machine-understandable resource. Philosophically, Chinese ideogram has its ontological status, but its applicability to the NLP task has not been expressed ex-plicitly in terms of language resource. We thus propose the first attempt to locate Chi-nese characters within the context of on-tology. Having the primary success in ap-plying it to some NLP tasks, we believe that the construction of this knowledge re-source will shed new light on theoretical setting as well as the construction of Chi-nese lexical semantic resources.