The detection of synonyms is a challenge that has attracted many contributions for the possible applications in many areas, including Semantic Web and Information Retrieval. An open challenge is to identify synonyms of a term that are appropriate for a specific domain, not just all the synonyms. Moreover, the execution time is critical when handling big data. Therefore, it is needed an algorith...

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...

Chapter 4. Lissencephaly, Type I 35 DEFINITION Lissencephaly, derived from the Greek works “lissos” meaning smooth and “enkephalos” which means brain, is a descriptive term defining a class of human cerebral malformations characterized by the agyric surface of the brain. In fact, most cases of lissencephaly do not have a complete loss of gyri; often the most ventral and medial gyri are relative...

a term in one language rarely has an absolute synonymous meaning in the same language; besides, it rarely has an equivalent meaning in an l2. english synonyms of seeing and hearing are particularly grammatically and semantically different. frame semantics is a good tool for discovering differences between synonymous words in l2 and differences between supposed l1 and l2 equivalents. vocabulary ...

 Exploring synonyms within large commercial site search engine queries Julia Kiseleva, Andrey Simanovsky HP Laboratories HPL-2011-41 synonym mining, query log analysis We describe results of experiments of extract-ing synonyms from large commercial site search engine query log. Our primary object is product search queries. The resulting dictionary of synonyms can be plugged into a search engin...

A term in one language rarely has an absolute synonymous meaning in the same language; besides, it rarely has an equivalent meaning in an L2. English synonyms of seeing and hearing are particularly grammatically and semantically different. Frame semantics is a good tool for discovering differences between synonymous words in L2 and differences between supposed L1 and L2 equivalents. Vocabulary ...