Corpus linguistics and its relationship with modern lexicography are paid more and more attention by linguists and lexicographers in recent years. This paper, based on corpus analysis, mainly studies EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners’ synonymous errors (SE), which refer to errors made by learners when using synonyms in writing. The unit observed is a pair of commonly used synonyms glad...

Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. However, near-synonyms are not necessarily interchangeable in contexts due to their specific usage and syntactic constraints. Accordingly, it is worth to develop algorithms to verify whether near-synonyms do match the gi...

We propose a method of synonymous paraphrasing of a text based on WordNet synonymy data and Internet statistics of stable word combinations (collocations). Given a text, we look for words or expressions in it for which WordNet provides synonyms, and substitute them with such synonyms only if the latter form valid collocations with the surrounding words according to the statistics gathered from ...

Data for the initial gene synonym dictionary was collected from publicly available databases, e.g. LocusLink (Pruitt et al., 2000), FlyBase, or UniProt (Apweiler et al., 2004). In addition to primary gene symbols and names, when known, this initial dictionary also contained alternative synonyms and orthographic variants. Although genome databases, were the principal sources of primary symbols a...