Hownet And the Computation of Meaning
Hownet And the Computation of Meaning
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Cognitive properties of words are very useful in figurative language understanding, language acquisition and translation. To overcome the subjectivity and low efficiency in manual construction of such database, we propose a web-based method for automatic collection and analysis of cognitive properties. The method employs simile templates to query the search engines. With the help of a bilingual dictionary, the method is able to collect tens of thousands of "vehicle-adjective" items of high quality. Frequencies are then used to obtain the common and independent cognitive properties automatically. The method can be extended conveniently to other languages to construct multi-lingual cognitive property knowledgebase.