ACLCLP


Application for Use of The Academia Sinica Bilingual WordNet


The Academia Sinica Bilingual WordNet (Sinica BOW, http://bow.sinica.edu.tw/) is a Mandarin-English bilingual database covering 100,000 English synsets. This database is developed based on the frame of English WordNet and language usage in Taiwan. The information provided in this database includes Mandarin-English cross-language information transformation, identification and linking relation between senses as well as the specific domain and frequency of usage of the senses. This database enabled information from different sources to become inter-operable. The resources in this database are mainly from the jointly developed data by Corpus Linguistics Group, Institute of Linguistics and Mandarin Knowledge Information Processing Group, Institute of Information Science in Academia Sinica, along with WordNet by Princeton University and jointly developed data by Global View Co. Ltd. Taiwan, and Academia Sinica. The copyright of all original content in this database belongs to Academia Sinica and Global View Co. Ltd., except English monolingual database WordNet developed by and authorized from Princeton University. All open source data are stored both in plain text and XML format. 

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The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
1F., No. 34, Ln. 3, Sec. 1, Jiuzhuang St., Nankang Dist., Taipei City, 115022, Taiwan


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