Papers with HowNet
Try to Substitute: An Unsupervised Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation Method Based on HowNet (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing unsupervised methods for word sense disambiguation cannot work for HowNet-based WSD because of its uniqueness. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which exploits the masked language model task of pre-trained language models to conduct word sense disambiguation using a lexical knowledge base as the sense inventory. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves significantly better performance than baseline methods. |
Bridging the Gap Between BabelNet and HowNet: Unsupervised Sense Alignment and Sememe Prediction (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Sememes are the minimum semantic units of natural languages, but their use is limited by a lack of available sememe knowledge bases. |
| Approach: | They propose to use sense alignment to connect BabelNet with HowNet by relaxing constraints until a complete alignment is achieved. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on previous supervised methods by 12% . it is based on interpretable propagation of sememe information between lexical resources . |
Enhancing Lexical Relation Mining with Structured Sememe Knowledge (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing top-performing methods for Lexical Relation Mining rely on pre-trained language models yet fail to distinguish nuanced lexical relations. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to leverage structured sememe knowledge to enhance LRC and LE. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on benchmarks and outperformed the LLMs. |
Incorporating Chinese Characters of Words for Lexical Sememe Prediction (P18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods of lexical sememe prediction rely on external context information of words to represent meaning. |
| Approach: | They propose a character-enhanced sememe prediction framework for Chinese language that takes advantage of internal character information and external context information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on a Chinese sememe knowledge base and maintains robust performance even for low-frequency words. |
End to End Chinese Lexical Fusion Recognition with Sememe Knowledge (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | a new task for coreference recognition is presented in linguistics . the fusion word is always out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in downstream paragraph-level tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese lexical fusion recognition task which could be regarded as one kind of coreference recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is effective and competitive for the proposed task. |
Improving HowNet-Based Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation with Translations (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Prior work on unsupervised WSD has leveraged lexical knowledge bases, such as WordNet and BabelNet, but these have proven to be less effective for Chinese. |
| Approach: | They propose a system which combines contextual information from a pretrained neural language model with bilingual information obtained via machine translation and sense translation information from HowNet. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves a state-of-the-art for unsupervised Chinese WSD. |
Glyph Enhanced Chinese Character Pre-Training for Lexical Sememe Prediction (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Sememes are defined as the atomic units to describe the semantic meaning of concepts. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which incorporates internal Chinese character information to help sememe prediction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing non-external information models on howNet, a famous sememe knowledge base. |
Automatic Construction of Sememe Knowledge Bases via Dictionaries (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Sememe knowledge bases (SKBs) are used to analyze natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to build sememe knowledge bases from an existing dictionary . they propose to use existing dictionaries to build an English and a French SKB . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is superior to HowNet, the most widely used SKB that takes decades to build manually. |
Language Modeling with Sparse Product of Sememe Experts (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing language modeling methods rely on large-scale text data to learn the sequential patterns of words. |
| Approach: | They propose to use sememes to represent the implicit semantics behind words for language modeling . they propose to employ sememe-driven language models to fine-grained semem-level semantics . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on language modeling and the downstream application of headline generation show the effectiveness of SDLM. |
Modeling Semantic Compositionality with Sememe Knowledge (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Semantic compositionality (SC) is defined as the phenomenon that the meaning of a complex linguistic unit can be composed of the meanings of its constituents. |
| Approach: | They propose to incorporate sememes into SC models and employ them in learning multiword expressions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models achieve significant performance boost compared to baseline methods without sememe knowledge. |
Extended HowNet 2.0 – An Entity-Relation Common-Sense Representation Model (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Extended HowNet 2.0 is a common-sense representation model for lexical senses . |
| Approach: | They propose Extended HowNet 2.0 -an entity-relation common-sense representation model . a query system is being developed for flexibly clustering concepts . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can bring significant benefits to the community of lexical semantics and natural language understanding. |