Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is one of the key issues in natural language processing. Currently, supervised WSD methods are effective ways to solve the ambiguity problem. However, due to lacking of large-scale training data, they cannot achieve satisfactory results. In this paper, we suppose synonyms for context words that can provide more knowledge for WSD task, and present two different WS...

One of the least-understood aspects of lexical choice in Natural Language Generation is choosing between near-synonyms. Previous studies of this issue, such as Edmonds and Hirst [4], have focused on semantic differences between near-synonyms, as analysed by lexicographers. Our empirical analysis of near-synonym choice in weather forecasts, however, suggests that other factors are probably more ...

between Vocabulary Heterogeneity and Loss of Information Eduardo Mena Facultad de Inform atica UPV/EHU San Sebasti an. Spain [email protected] Vipul Kashyap LSDIS Lab, UGA & CS dept., Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick, NJ 08903 [email protected] Arantza Illarramendi Facultad de Inform atica UPV/EHU San Sebasti an. Spain [email protected] Amit Sheth LSDIS Lab http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/ UGA, Athens, G...

In this paper we study the impact of query term expansion (QTE) using synonyms on patent document retrieval. We use an automatically generated lexical database from USPTO query logs, called PatNet, which provides synonyms and equivalents for a query term. Our experiments on the CLEF-IP 2010 benchmark dataset show that automatic query expansion using PatNet tends to decrease or only slightly imp...

Many adjectives that appear to be synonyms of one another differ in their intensity. Distinguishing the nuances between adjective synonyms is vital to linguistic understanding of a language, but WordNet currently does not encode the relative intensities of adjective synonyms that lie on the scale. Sheinman & Tokunaga (2009) proposed a solution of constructing Adjective Scales by data mining a w...

Synonyms Dual Scaling, optimal scaling, homogeneity analysis.

Over 100 distributions, and another 150 synonyms.

We describe a new unsupervised approach for synonymy discovery by aligning paraphrases in monolingual domain corpora. For that purpose, we identify phrasal terms that convey most of the concepts within domains and adapt a methodology for the automatic extraction and alignment of paraphrases to identify paraphrase casts from which valid synonyms are discovered. Results performed on two different...

An implementation of a non-structural Example-Based Machine Translation system that translates sentences from Arabic to English, using a parallel corpus aligned at the sentence level, is described. Source-language synonyms were derived automatically and used to help locate potential translation examples for fragments of a given input sentence. The smaller the parallel corpus, the greater the co...

SUMMARY When referring to genes, authors often use synonyms instead of the official gene symbols. In order to accurately retrieve as many relevant documents as possible, we have developed GeneE, a web application that expands a gene query to include all known synonyms, and adds disambiguation information for ambiguous terms, before forwarding the query to either PubMed, Google or Jane. The quer...