HowNet - a hybrid language and knowledge resource

HowNet is an online common-sense knowledge base unveiling inter-conceptual relations and inter-attribute relations of concepts as connoting in Chinese and English bilingual lexicons. Since it was released in 1999, HowNet has become more and more popular and been applied in various areas of NLP, related to both Chinese and English. We show a general picture of HowNet, discuss its theory and peculiarities.