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"abstract": "There has been no consensus as to what constitutes a set of base concepts in the mental landscape. With the aim of exploring base concepts in Chinese, this paper proposes that frequently-occurring words in the glosses of a lexical resource such as the Chinese Wordnet can be seen as a candidate set of base concepts because the glosses use basic words. The present study identified 130 base concepts in Chinese. The Base Concepts in EuroWordNet were adopted as a reference for comparison. While only 44.6% of the base concepts identified in the present study have an equivalent in the set of Base Concepts of EuroWordNet, the other base concepts extracted by our gloss-based approach also reflect a certain degree of basicness. It is hoped that both the overlap and the difference between different sets of base concepts identified in different languages and by different approaches can deepen our understanding of the basic core in the mind. Additionally, it is also hoped that the set of base concepts identified in the present study can have computational as well as pedagogical applications in the future.",
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"text": "There has been no consensus as to what constitutes a set of base concepts in the mental landscape. With the aim of exploring base concepts in Chinese, this paper proposes that frequently-occurring words in the glosses of a lexical resource such as the Chinese Wordnet can be seen as a candidate set of base concepts because the glosses use basic words. The present study identified 130 base concepts in Chinese. The Base Concepts in EuroWordNet were adopted as a reference for comparison. While only 44.6% of the base concepts identified in the present study have an equivalent in the set of Base Concepts of EuroWordNet, the other base concepts extracted by our gloss-based approach also reflect a certain degree of basicness. It is hoped that both the overlap and the difference between different sets of base concepts identified in different languages and by different approaches can deepen our understanding of the basic core in the mind. Additionally, it is also hoped that the set of base concepts identified in the present study can have computational as well as pedagogical applications in the future.",
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"text": "For the past few decades, a large body of research has been trying to touch on the basic core in the mind. Some studies (e.g., Wierzbicka, 1996) have aimed to figure out how a large number of concepts in the mind can be neatly organized with a basic set of concepts, leading us to the realm of human cognition. Furthermore, some studies have identified a set of base concepts that have had a wide range of computational applications. 1 WordNet (Miller et al., 1990) , for instance, is organized around a set of base concepts (i.e., SuperSenses), with which a large number of lexical items are associated through lexical relations. There have been many 58 Chan- Chia Hsu & Shu-Kai Hsieh approaches to exploring what is basic in the mind, but there has been no consensus as to what constitutes a set of base concepts universal to all human languages.",
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"text": "This study aims at providing a new perspective to identify a candidate set of base concepts in Chinese. Our data consist of the glosses in the Chinese Wordnet. Since the glosses in the Chinese Wordnet use basic words, words that occur frequently in the glosses of the Chinese Wordnet can be assumed to be reflective of a candidate set of base concepts. After data extraction and introspection, the resulting set of base concepts in the present study is compared with the set of Base Concepts proposed in the EuroWordNet project (Vossen et al., 1998) . In selecting a set of base concepts, our method is based on the frequencies of words used in the glosses of the Chinese Wordnet, whereas the method adopted in the EuroWordNet project is based on the relations between synsets. It is thus noted that the set of Base Concepts in EuroWordNet is not seen as de facto, but as a reference. We use the Base Concepts in EuroWordNet as our reference because on the one hand, the Chinese Wordnet and EuroWordNet both derive from the WordNet framework, and on the other hand, the set of Base Concepts from EuroWordNet is based on many European languages. It is hoped that both the overlap and the difference between different sets of base concepts identified by different approaches can deepen our understanding of the basic core in the mind. Additionally, it is also hoped that the set of base concepts identified in the present study can have computational as well as pedagogical applications in the future. This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides a comprehensive review of different approaches to the notion of basicness in the mind. Section 3 reviews the significance of glosses in different contexts. Section 4 introduces our experiment method and presents the set of base concepts identified in the present study. Section 5 discusses how our proposed set of base concepts in Chinese is different from that of EuroWordNet. Section 6 concludes the paper.",
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"text": "Over the past few decades, there have been various approaches to the notion of basicness in the mental landscape. Some have created lists of lexical items as basic words, mainly for pedagogical purposes. Some, from a cognitive perspective, have selected different sets of basic concepts at different levels of abstraction (e.g., semantic primitives, base concepts, basic-level categories, and basic domains).",
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"text": "The present study focuses on base concepts, which have contributed to the establishment of lexical resources (e.g., WordNet, EuroWordNet, and BalkaNet). Compared with basic words, base concepts have more computational applications than pedagogical ones. Compared with semantic primitives and basic domains, base concepts are selected in a more scientific procedure. Compared with basic-level categories, base concepts are hierarchically higher. A Back to the Basic: Exploring Base Concepts from the Wordnet Glosses 59 comprehensive review of different approaches to the notion of basicness in the mind will be given in the following.",
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"text": "In previous studies, the terms \"basic vocabulary\", \"sight vocabulary\", \"core vocabulary\", and the like are sometimes interchangeable.3 For others who have adopted a similar approach in languages other than English, seeGoddard (2002:12).",
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"text": "WordNet is open to the general public at http://wordnet.princeton.edu.5 For the format of the lexicographical files, see wninput(5WN) at http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/man/lexnames.5WN.html.6 The 164 Base Concepts in EuroWordnet consist of 66 concrete synsets (nouns) and 98 abstract synsets (nouns and verbs). For more details, refer to http://www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/ewn_to_bc/ConcreteInfo.html and http://www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/ewn_to_bc/AbstractInfo.htm.",
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"text": "For more information about the BalkaNet project, refer to http://www.dblab.upatras.gr/balkanet/ and http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53 for similar works (e.g.,Atserias et al., 2003).8 Note that basic-level concepts should not be confused with Base Concepts. While a Base Concept occupies a high position in a hierarchy, a basic-level concept occurs in the middle of a hierarchy.",
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"text": "The morpheme jian does not stand alone in Modern Chinese.12 Originally, there were 15,325 tokens of de and 850 tokens of danwei in the data.13 For which synsets in EuroWordNet were merged in the present study, see the appendix.",
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"text": "We would like to express our gratitude to Chih-Yao Lee for his technical support in the data analysis. Our gratitude is also extended to the reviewers for their insightful suggestions. Our appreciation also goes out to Harvey Hsin-chang Ho for his meticulous reading of the entire manuscript and his suggestions for its improvement. However, any weaknesses that remain are our own.",
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