Applying FrameNet to Chinese(Poetry)
This work addresses the challenge of applying FrameNet to a non-Latin language like Chinese for poetry translation, but it appears incremental as it primarily compares existing FrameNet resources without introducing new methods.
The paper tackled the application of FrameNet to Chinese poetry by first translating ancient Chinese poetry to modern Chinese using Chinese FrameNet (CFN), then comparing CFN with English FrameNet for modern Chinese translation, resulting in a comparative analysis of their effectiveness.
FrameNet( Fillmore and Baker [2009] ) is well-known for its wide use for knowledge representation in the form of inheritance-based ontologies and lexica( Trott et al. [2020] ). Although FrameNet is usually applied to languages like English, Spanish and Italian, there are still plenty of FrameNet data sets available for other languages like Chinese, which differs significantly from those languages based on Latin alphabets. In this paper, the translation from ancient Chinese Poetry to modern Chinese will be first conducted to further apply the Chinese FrameNet(CFN, provided by Shanxi University). Afterwards, the translation from modern Chinese will be conducted as well for the comparison between the applications of CFN and English FrameNet. Finally, the overall comparison will be draw between CFN to modern Chinese and English FrameNet.