語意範疇與詞彙分類:英文與中文常用詞彙對比分析

The first English thesaurus was Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases,
which was published by Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) in 1852. Different from the
traditional English dictionaries, which arranged words alphabetically, this thesaurus
arranged English words according to their semantic categories in terms of synonyms
and antonyms. Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases has six major semantic
categories: Abstract Relations, Space, Matter, Intellect, Volition, and Affections. Under
each major semantic categories, there are many sub-categories, amounting to a total of
1,000 sub-sub-categories. This was the first ontology constructed for the English
language.