In a project on the Flora of Iran (Trib.: Ranunculeae), many herbarium specimens of thegenus Ranunculus were studied. The results of this study are a new record and suggestion of a synonym for the Flora of Iran, specimens of which are preserved in the herbarium of Research Institute of Forest & Rangelands (TARI). 

Despite their similar meanings, near-synonyms may have different usages in different contexts. For second language learners, such differences are not easily grasped in practical use. In this paper, we develop a computer-assisted near-synonym learning system for Chinese English-as-aSecond-Language (ESL) learners using two automatic near-synonym choice techniques: pointwise mutual information (PM...

Thinking in business processes and using process models for their documentation has become common practice in companies. In many cases this documentation encompasses more than thousands of models. One of the key challenges is the realization of consistency of the used terminology. Especially, the usage of synonym and homonym words is one of the most severe problems for terminological consistenc...