The Chinese-English Contrastive Language Knowledge Base and Its Applications

Xiaojing Bai, Christoph Zähner, Hongying Zan, Shiwen Yu

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce our ongoing research on a Chinese-English Contrastive Language Knowledge Base, including its architecture, the selection of its entries and the XML-based annotation schemes used. We also report on the progress of annotation. The knowledge base is linguistically motivated, focusing on a wide range of sub-sentential contrasts between Chinese and English. It will offer a new form of bilingual resources for NLP tasks, for use in contrastive linguistic research and translation studies, amongst others. Currently, joint efforts are being made to develop tools for Computer-Assisted Translation and Second Language Acquisition using this knowledge base.