Concept mapping is important in natural language processing (NLP) for bioinformatics. The UMLS Metathesaurus provides a rich synonym thesaurus and is a popular resource for concept mapping. Query expansion using synonyms for subterm substitutions is an effective technique to increase recall for UMLS concept mapping. Synonyms used to substitute subterms are called element synonyms. The completen...

Query substitution replaces original query words with a new words that express the same meaning. In this paper, the technique of n-gram analysis is proposed to find the synonyms or quasi-synonyms of the original query word. The synonyms found are then incorporated into the original query with different methods. Experiments show that the proposed n-gram analysis techniques can obtain interesting...

This paper presents a simple method for finding new synonym candidates for a bilingual wordnet by using another bilingual resource. Our goal is to add new synonyms to the existing synsets of the Finnish WordNet, which has direct word sense translation correspondences to the Princeton WordNet. For this task, we use Wikipedia and its links between the articles of the same topic in Finnish and Eng...

most of the linguists and grammarians accepted the synonymy. the cause that made us deal with it again is achievement new accomplishments. beyond doubt, results that we harvested are important to understand the quran and hadiths. in this paper we want through discussion synonyms that sheikh alisaghir and the others referred to those show the points of difference and agreement.