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  <Title>Annotating information structures in Chinese texts using HowNet</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The work reported here constitutes part of our efforts to develop a new strategy for Chinese text understanding. The strategy was proposed by Dong (1999). It starts with tagging each concept with the most probable HowNet def'mitions. The second step is to determine the information structures as described in this paper. The last step is to recover the implicit information structures from the surface information structures based on two additional knowledge sources: (i) relations between the event types as defined in HowNet; and (ii) rules governing the interplay of dynamic roles between event types. For example, the &amp;quot;suicide&amp;quot; event in example (1) does not mention its agent directly. The means of committing 'suicide' by 'firing' is also implicit. The recovery of this information will be the main issues to be resolved at the final stage. In parallel with our annotation effort, we are also working on developing automatic algorithms for the disambiguation of HowNet definitions and the identification of information structures. The creation of the two additional knowledge bases will be our future plan.</Paragraph>
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