Construction of a Bilingual Cognitive Property Knowledgebase

Every language has its own culture background, thus it is difficult to translate or retrieve figurative expressions across languages. Based on the metaphoric cognition and feature analysis theory, we collect data from the web to construct the Chinese-English bilingual lexical cognitive property knowledgebase linked to "HowNet". By comparing the differences of the cognitive property, we get some answers to the core linguistic problem "is the metaphor universal?" Then, we put forward a novel method to gain the metaphoric property of a word by its translation in another language. The paper lays a solid foundation for semantic analysis and computing of lexical cognitive property.