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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.
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Bai, X., Zähner, C., Zan, H., Yu, S. (2014). The Chinese-English Contrastive Language Knowledge Base and Its Applications. In: Sun, M., Liu, Y., Zhao, J. (eds) Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data. NLP-NABD CCL 2014 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8801. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12277-9_10
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