Building a Chinese-English WordNet for Translingual Applications

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-122

  Chen, Hsin Hsi ^a   Lin, Chi Ching ^a   Lin, Wen Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bilingual WordNet; cross language information retrieval; Experimentation; Languages; sense tagging; thesaurus construction; translingual application; word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017265378     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/568954.568955     Document Type: Article

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