Construction and Expansion of Idiom Knowledge Base for Improving Language Ability

The Chinese Idioms Knowledge Base (CIKB) is a new member of a large family known as the Comprehensive Language Knowledge Base (CLKB) developed by the Institute of Computational Linguistics at Peking University. It can play an important role for improving language ability of both humans and computers. In this paper we introduce in detail the content, construction ideas and development process of CIKB. The connection of CIKB with the Allusion Knowledge Base of Chinese Poetry developed by Lo Fengju from Yuan Ze University in Taiwan makes the two knowledge bases complement each other. Based on CIKB, a few proposals for further study are also provided.