1. OWL Description of Linguistic Content of Chinese Characters Chu-Ren Huang August 14, 2007 ISO TC37 SC4 Meeting, Provo, Utah

2. Background Extracted from Ya-Min Chou’s 2005 Dissertation Consulted and generally compatible to GOLD: General Ontology for Linguistic Description

3. OWL Model for Chinese Character (Kanji) Forms

4. Description of Character Variants if hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gi, 說 ) and hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gi, 説 ) then 說＝説 if hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gj, 研 ) and hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gj, 硏 ) then 研＝硏 if hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gk, 眾 ) and hasGlyphyInUnicode(Gk, 衆 ) then 眾＝衆

5. Description of Historical Glyph Changes 月 月 月 hasAncientGlyph 心心 isAncientGlyphOf 反身關係 if hasAncientGlyph(Gi, Gj ) then isAncientGlyphOf(Gj, Gi) 遞移關係 if hasAncientGlyph(Gi, Gj ) and hasAncientGlyph(Gj, Gk ) then hasAncientGlyph(Gi, Gk )

6. Description of Chinese Radicals (The semantic component of Chinese Characters)

7. Description of the phonological components in a Chinese character

8. Description of the Criteria of Chinese Character Composition

9. OWL Description of Character Senses

10. OWL Description of Word Derivation of Chinese Characters

11. OWL Description of Character Pronounciation

12. OWL Description of Character Variants

13. Ontology and Linguistics Final Call for Paper (Deadline Extended: August 31, 2007) Workshop on Linguistic Studies of Ontology: From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back CIL18 (18th International Congress of Linguists) http://cil18.orghttp://cil18.org July 21-26, 2008, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Submission of Abstracts : A two-page abstract including everything should be sent electronically to both cil18@cil18.org and churenhuang@gmail.com. An MS Word and/or.pdf file may be accepted.cil18@cil18.orgchurenhuang@gmail.com