OWL Description of Linguistic Content of Chinese Characters

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OWL Description of Linguistic Content of Chinese
Characters

• Chu-Ren Huang
• August 14, 2007
• ISO TC37 SC4 Meeting,
• Provo, Utah

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Background

• Extracted from Ya-Min Chous 2005 Dissertation
• Consulted and generally compatible to GOLD
  General Ontology for Linguistic Description

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OWL Model for Chinese Character (Kanji) Forms
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Description of Character Variants
if hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gi, ?) and
hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gi, ?) then ?? if
hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gj, ?) and hasGlyphyInUnicode(G
j, ?) then ?? if hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gk,?)
and hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gk,?) then ??
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Description of Historical Glyph Changes
???? if hasAncientGlyph(Gi, Gj ) then
isAncientGlyphOf(Gj, Gi) ???? if
hasAncientGlyph(Gi, Gj ) and hasAncientGlyph(Gj,
Gk ) then hasAncientGlyph(Gi, Gk )
hasAncientGlyph
?
hasAncientGlyph
hasAncientGlyph
?
?
?
hasAncientGlyph
isAncientGlyphOf
?
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Description of Chinese Radicals (The semantic
component of Chinese Characters)
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Description of the phonological components in a
Chinese character
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Description of the Criteria of Chinese Character
Composition
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OWL Description of Character Senses
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OWL Description of Word Derivation of Chinese
Characters
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OWL Description of Character Pronounciation
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OWL Description of Character Variants
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Ontology and Linguistics

• Final Call for Paper (Deadline Extended August
  31, 2007)
• Workshop on Linguistic Studies of Ontology
• From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and
  Back
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• CIL18 (18th International Congress of Linguists)
  http//cil18.org
• July 21-26, 2008 , Korea University, Seoul,
  Republic of Korea
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• Submission of Abstracts
• A two-page abstract including everything should
  be sent electronically to both cil18_at_cil18.org
  and churenhuang_at_gmail.com. An MS Word and/or .pdf
  file may be accepted.