%0 Report %D 2000 %T Large-Scale Construction of a Chinese-English Semantic Hierarchy %A Dorr, Bonnie J %A Levow,Gina-Anne %A Lin,Dekang %K *CHINESE VERBS %K *HIERARCHIES %K *SEMANTICS %K CHINA %K CROSS CORRELATION %K Information retrieval %K INFORMATION SCIENCE %K LANGUAGE %K LEXICONS %K linguistics %K Machine translation %K MULTILINGUAL %K operations research %K SYSTEMS APPROACH %X This paper addresses the problem of building conceptual resources for multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale construction of a semantic hierarchy for Chinese verbs, using thematic-role information to create links between Chinese concepts and English classes. We then present an approach to compensating for gaps in the existing resources. The resulting hierarchy is used for a multilingual lexicon for Chinese-English machine translation and cross-language information retrieval applications. %I Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park %8 2000/04// %G eng %U http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA458682