HowNet Sememe Introduction Sememe, the most basic and the smallest semantic unit that should not be divided

Introduction to CNKI   OpenHowNet originates from HowNet, a language knowledge base with great influence in the Chinese world. The construction of HowNet adheres to the idea of ​​reductionism , that is, the meaning of all words can be composed of smaller semantic units , and this semantic unit is called "sememe", that is, the most basic and the smallest semantic meaning that cannot be further divided unit. HowNet has built a fine semantic description system containing more than 2,000 sememes , and has marked the sememes for the concepts represented by more than 100,000 Chinese and English words.   HowNet was first designed and constructed by Dong Zhendong and Dong Qiang in the 1990s, and has a history of nearly 30 years, during which it has been iteratively updated. OpenHowNet open sourced the core data of HowNet for the first time , and developed a rich calling interface to realize functions such as sememe query and word similarity calculation based on sememe.
Brief introduction of Mr. Dong Zhendong Mr. Dong Zhendong (April 1937-February 28, 2019) served as an academic consultant of the Knowledge Intelligence Research Center of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University, an adjunct professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Northern Software Institute, a researcher of the Academy of Military Sciences, and a researcher of the Machine Translation Research Group Chang, the Chinese technical director of the five-country machine translation international cooperation project, the director of the language engineering laboratory of a Chinese software company, the chief researcher of the Japanese Language Institute, and the researcher of the System Science Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. Served as the main person in charge of the national "Seventh Five-Year Plan" machine translation scientific and technological research project, and the head of the overall team of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" Chinese information processing 905 platform project. He has won the second prize of Chinese People's Liberation Army Science and Technology Progress Award (1988), the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (1989), the Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Information Society (2011), and the first prize of Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award (2012). He is the main designer of the first commercialized machine translation system in China, and one of the designers and developers of HowNet .
Introduction of Mr. Dong Qiang He is currently the technical director of HowNet Technology Co., Ltd., responsible for the research and development of HowNet knowledge system. He used to be the director of the Language Knowledge Research Office of the Computer Language and Information Engineering Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the project manager of Beijing Innovation Future Technology Co., Ltd., and the software engineer of Beijing Parker Technology Co., Ltd., etc. He also serves as a peer review expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the project leader of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Automatic Identification of Information Structure Relationships in Chinese Words. He is one of the designers and developers of HowNet.