HowNet is an electronic world knowledge system, which serves as a powerful tool for meaning computation in HLT. 知网是一个人类语言信息处理所必需的世界知识系统,是应用于文本的意义或内容计算的强大工具。
HowNet established a way to represent sematic knowledge by describing the relationship between the words, as well as the relationship between the words' properties. 知网从描述词语之间的关系以及属性之间的关系入手建立了中文词语语义知识的表示方法。