Event Categorization for Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition about Events
Since a verb denotes an event,we classify common modern Chinese verbs at a semantic level based on verb morphemes for the purpose of acquiring commonsense knowledge of events.In contrast to the existing linguistic verb classification taxonomy,the categorization criteria of this method is clear:preserving the semantic information con-tained in this verb after a verb is classified.This paper utilizes the class of"self-motion events"as an example to in-troduce our categorization method.We use description logics to formalize the verb morphemes and relationships be-tween these verb morphemes,which is essential to formalization of verbs.According to this event classification sys-tem,we can effectively acquire commonsense knowledge related to event attributes and event relationships.
semantic categorization of eventscharacteristic attributecommonsense knowledge acquisition