Strictly corpus-based measures of semantic distance conflate co-occurrence information pertaining to the many possible senses of target words. We propose a corpus–thesaurus hybrid method that uses soft constraints to generate word-senseaware distributional profiles (DPs) from coarser “concept DPs” (derived from a Roget-like thesaurus) and sense-unaware traditional word DPs (derived from raw tex...

The study reported here investigated the query expansion behavior of end-users interacting with a thesaurus-enhanced search system on the Web. Two groups, namely academic staff and postgraduate students, were recruited into this study. Data were collected from 90 searches performed by 30 users using the OVID interface to the CAB abstracts database. Data-gathering techniques included questionnai...

The paper addresses with the development of an environmental thesaurus in order to obtain an advanced tool for semantic control and knowledge organization to be applied to environmental information management. EARTh (Environmental Application Reference Thesaurus) was designed according to an approach to meaning representation that regards lexical meaning as a unitas multiplex, a unity that aggr...

The paper focuses on the information system the core component of which is an educational thesaurus. The learning management system is proposed based on the appropriate educational thesauri. Also, effective procedures of the thesauri filling and ranking are discussed. An analysis carried by the authors revealed the drawbacks of the conventional learning tools and became the initial point for th...

introduction: for many years, ontologies have been available in many different forms, for example: classification schema, thesauruses, authorized vocabularies, terminologies and dictionaries. terminology and knowledge resources are essential components of interoperability among disparate systems. so, this paper considered the ontology of umls (which was prepared by national library medicine of ...

This study investigates the effects of dictionary and thesaurus use on lexical sophistication variation, two components richness in second language (L2) writing. After writing a take-home essay as part their studies, 27 learners enrolled an English preparatory program at state university Turkey received brief instructions variation. Following instructions, were asked to revise essays by using t...