Helena Hong Gao

Also published as: Helena Gao


2017

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Word Learning by Young Bilinguals: Understanding the Denotation and Connotation Differences of “Cut” Verbs in English and Chinese
Keng Hwee Neo | Helena Gao
Proceedings of the 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2016

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Mapping and Generating Classifiers using an Open Chinese Ontology
Luis Morgado Da Costa | Francis Bond | Helena Gao
Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC)

In languages such as Chinese, classifiers (CLs) play a central role in the quantification of noun-phrases. This can be a problem when generating text from input that does not specify the classifier, as in machine translation (MT) from English to Chinese. Many solutions to this problem rely on dictionaries of noun-CL pairs. However, there is no open large-scale machine-tractable dictionary of noun-CL associations. Many published resources exist, but they tend to focus on how a CL is used (e.g. what kinds of nouns can be used with it, or what features seem to be selected by each CL). In fact, since nouns are open class words, producing an exhaustive definite list of noun-CL associations is not possible, since it would quickly get out of date. Our work tries to address this problem by providing an algorithm for automatic building of a frequency based dictionary of noun-CL pairs, mapped to concepts in the Chinese Open Wordnet (Wang and Bond, 2013), an open machine-tractable dictionary for Chinese. All results will released under an open license.

2015

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Understanding Infants’ Language Development in Relation to Levels of Consciousness: An Approach in Building up an Agent-based Model
Helena Hong Gao | Can Guo
Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2014

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Database Design of an Online E-Learning Tool of Chinese Classifiers
Helena Gao
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex)

2011

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Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Helena Hong Gao | Minghui Dong
Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2010

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Computational Lexicography: A Feature-based Approach in Designing an E-dictionary of Chinese Classifiers
Helena Gao
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

2009

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Application of Cognitive Strategies to Chinese Noun Classifier E-learning (short paper)
Wei Ni | Helena Hong Gao | Shixiao Ouyang
Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Computational Semantics

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Developing a Computer-facilitated Tool for Acquiring Near-synonyms in Chinese and English (short paper)
Shixiao Ouyang | Helena Hong Gao | Soo Ngee Koh
Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Computational Semantics