Key Features:
- Describes the biaxial theory of verb classification and how the authors classified over 25,000 Chinese verbs and 20,000 English verbs into a scheme featured by close correspondence between static verbs and action verbs
- Shows how over 150,000 meanings in both English and Chinese, can be defined by using 2,000 semenes (basic meaning units) and computed
- Discusses the relations not only among the words of the same category but also among words of different categories
- Describes how the HowNet system can serve as a very useful teaching-aid for learners of Chinese as second language
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