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title: "Analogy Generation with HowNet"
authors:
  - "Tony Veale"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/54"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0054.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "1148-1152"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Analogy Generation with HowNet

Tony Veale

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1148-1152.

## Abstract

Analogy is a powerful boundary-transcending process that exploits a conceptual system’s ability to perform controlled generalization in one domain and re-specialization into another. The result of this semantic leap is the transference of meaning from one concept to another from which metaphor derives its name (literally: to carry over). Such generalization and re-specialization can be achieved using a variety of representations and techniques, most notably abstraction via a taxonomic backbone, or selective projection via structure-mapping on propositional content. In this paper we explore the extent to which a bilingual lexical ontology for English and Chinese, called HowNet, can support both approaches to analogy.