Senescence: Concepts and Synonyms

The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms

If we want to describe the action of someone who is looking out a window for an extended time, how do we choose between the words gazing, staring, and peering? What exactly is the difference between an argument, a dispute, and a row? In this paper, we describe our research in progress on the problem of lexical choice and the representations of world knowledge and of lexical structure and meanin...

The Semantic and Stylistic Diierentiation of Synonyms and Near-synonyms

Synonyms and Historical Annotations

Chapter 4. Lissencephaly, Type I 35 DEFINITION Lissencephaly, derived from the Greek works “lissos” meaning smooth and “enkephalos” which means brain, is a descriptive term defining a class of human cerebral malformations characterized by the agyric surface of the brain. In fact, most cases of lissencephaly do not have a complete loss of gyri; often the most ventral and medial gyri are relative...

Grouping Synonyms by Definitions

We present a method for grouping the synonyms of a lemma according to its dictionary senses. The senses are defined by a large machine readable dictionary for French, the TLFi (Trésor de la langue française informatisé) and the synonyms are given by 5 synonym dictionaries (also for French). To evaluate the proposed method, we manually constructed a gold standard where for each (word, definition...

Pattern Synonyms ( Extended version )

Pattern matching has proven to be a convenient, expressive way of inspecting data. Yet this language feature, in its traditional form, is limited: patterns must be data constructors of concrete data types. No computation or abstraction is allowed. The data type in question must be concrete, with no ability to enforce any invariants. Any change in this data type requires all clients to update th...