TY - GEN
T1 - A Hanzi radical ontology based approach towards teaching Chinese characters
AU - Hong, Jia Fei
AU - Huang, Chu Ren
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Given the current popularity of learning Chinese language globally, design and creation of Chinese teaching materials is gaining recognition and has great impact. The preparation of teaching materials for reading and writing is particularly challenging because of the use of Chinese characters in the writing system. The aim of this study is to adopt an ontology-based description of the knowledge system of Chinese characters and to propose a knowledge-system based approach to the teaching of Chinese writing. In addition, we integrate Generative Lexicon Theory by [1] as bases of the concepts of Chinese character for Chinese teaching. By adopting this approach, Chinese learners can recognize and write Chinese words and then understand their lexical senses. In this study, we take Chinese radical representing (cao3, grass), and five sense faculties in ShuoWenJieZi, (mu4, eyes), (er3, ears), (kou3, mouth) (bi2, nose), and (she2, tongue) which all belongs to "body part" class in SUMO concepts as our research objects and explore their possible applications in Chinese teaching.
AB - Given the current popularity of learning Chinese language globally, design and creation of Chinese teaching materials is gaining recognition and has great impact. The preparation of teaching materials for reading and writing is particularly challenging because of the use of Chinese characters in the writing system. The aim of this study is to adopt an ontology-based description of the knowledge system of Chinese characters and to propose a knowledge-system based approach to the teaching of Chinese writing. In addition, we integrate Generative Lexicon Theory by [1] as bases of the concepts of Chinese character for Chinese teaching. By adopting this approach, Chinese learners can recognize and write Chinese words and then understand their lexical senses. In this study, we take Chinese radical representing (cao3, grass), and five sense faculties in ShuoWenJieZi, (mu4, eyes), (er3, ears), (kou3, mouth) (bi2, nose), and (she2, tongue) which all belongs to "body part" class in SUMO concepts as our research objects and explore their possible applications in Chinese teaching.
KW - Chinese teaching
KW - Ontology
KW - character
KW - lexical semantics
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-36337-5_75
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-36337-5_75
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874180014
SN - 9783642363368
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 745
EP - 755
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 13th Workshop, CLSW 2012, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 13th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2012
Y2 - 6 July 2012 through 8 July 2012
ER -