Motivation: Documents related to an IR query sometimes contain only the synonyms of the query words instead of the query words themselves. A simple IR system with no knowledge of synonyms fails to recognize the relevance of these documents to the query. So, we can improve recall of IR systems by considering the synonyms of the query words as a part of the IR query. However, only relevant synony...

A particular problem of searching news archives with named entities is that they are very dynamic in appearance compared to other vocabulary terms, and synonym relationships between terms change with time. In previous work, we proposed an approach to extracting time-based synonyms of named entities from the whole history of Wikipedia. In this paper, we present QUEST (Query Expansion using Synon...

The detection of synonyms is a challenge that has attracted many contributions for the possible applications in many areas, including Semantic Web and Information Retrieval. An open challenge is to identify synonyms of a term that are appropriate for a specific domain, not just all the synonyms. Moreover, the execution time is critical when handling big data. Therefore, it is needed an algorith...

Brevipalpus phoenicis sensu stricto (Geijskes) is redescribed and the species diagnosis established. Two former synonyms of B. phoenicis sensu lato, B. yothersi Baker and B. papayensis Baker, are resurrected and redescribed and their species diagnoses established. Brevipalpus hondurani Evans is also redescribed and diagnosed. Four new species, previously misidentified as B. phoenicis sensu lato...

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...