Journal of Chinese Language and Computing: The Polysemy of Da3: An ontology-based study

In this study, we explore all possible concepts for physical activity senses and metaphorical event senses of da3 through the SUMO ontological concept system. We use SUMO to find out their concepts in order to group and cluster these same concept words. For that reason, we can get different concept groups for the physical activity senses or metaphorical event senses of da3. We also compare our analysis with Gao’s study (2001) and find our results are very similar. This leads us to propose that a concept-base approach is a viable one when exploring the sense of polysemous verbs in Chinese