
The Analogical Thesaurus is an attempt to create a semantic index of words and ideas that can be accessed using a variety of conceptual perspectives. Besides the traditional alphabetic index (as in conventional dictionaries) and a taxonomic index (e.g., as found in WordNet), the Analogical Thesaurus provides an analogical and metonymic means of browsing through words and ideas.
As presented here, the Analogical Thesaurus has been distilled from a marriage of two resources. The first is HowNet lexical ontology, using analogical techniques described in our group publications. The second is Wikipedia, an on-line open-source encyclopedia, whose rich inter-topic reference structure allows us to extract implicit relationships from HowNet entries and their Chinese orthography.
You can access the Analogical Thesaurus on-line. Be sure to read the help documentation first.
