Conceptual difference between WordNet and HowNet

By comparison between WordNet and HowNet in their fundamentals, the paper discusses some essential theoretical issues on the construction of knowledge resources for NLP. It is focused on: (1) Human-orientation vs. computer-orientation; (2) Human-annotation vs. machine-computation; (3) Word-based vs. concept-based; (4) Synsets vs. sememes; (5) Definition in natural language vs. representation in structured markup language.