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One generally accepted hallmark of creative thinking is an ability to look beyond conventional labels and recategorize a concept based on its behaviour and functional potential. So while taxonomies are useful in any domain of reasoning, they typically represent the conventional label set that creative thinking attempts to look beyond. So if a linguistic taxonomy like WordNet [1] is to be useful in driving linguistic creativity, it must support some basis for recategorization, to allow an agent to reorganize its category structures in a way that unlocks the functional potential of objects, or that recognizes similarity between literally dissimilar ideas. In this paper we consider how recategorization can be used to generate analogies using the HowNet [2] ontology, a lexical resource like WordNet that in addition to being bilingual (Chinese/English) also provides explicit semantic definitions for each of the terms that it defines.
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Veale, T. (2005). Analogy as Functional Recategorization: Abstraction with HowNet Semantics. In: Dale, R., Wong, KF., Su, J., Kwong, O.Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2005. IJCNLP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11562214_29
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