Synonymous relationships among biomedical terms are extensively annotated within specialized terminologies, implying that synonymy is important for practical computational applications within this field. It remains unclear, however, whether text mining actually benefits from documented synonymy and whether existing biomedical thesauri provide adequate coverage of these linguistic relationships....

Background: Although extensive synonymy is one of the greatest strengths of the UMLS Metathesaurus, much research has nonetheless focused on identifying and measuring gaps in UMLS synonymy. This paper proposes a methodology for further extending the UMLS’ already rich synonymy by semi-automatically creating new strings not in the UMLS, and including them as additional synonymous strings within ...

Acquiring and enriching lexical resources is cruciel for various areas of the computational linguistics applications, espcially in specialised domains. In this paper, we propose a high-quality method exploiting the compositionality of complex terms issued from a structured terminology. to infer synonymy and hierarchical relations between words or terms. The approach has been applied and evaluat...

synonymy is a common phenomenon among different languages. the linguists of the world have had various views about it. thus, first this issue is put to survey among arabic linguists and then its scope in the holy qur’ān is discussed. the phenomenon of synonymy has its proponents and opponents, each having their own reasons. this disagreement stems from the lack of a comprehensive and exclusive ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using antecedent persuasive stimulation and response-contingent praise, within a small discussion group context, to modify the rate of verbal participation of Ss in an independent, classroom situation. Ss were 96 male college students who were divided into 12 treatment subgroups and 4 control subgroups of 6 Ss each. 3 treatment conditions were employ...

To resolve problems of identity and synonymy of CuZex (MeZanoconion) taeniopus Dyar and Knab 1907, epanastasis Dyar 1922, crybda Dyar 1924, opisthopus Komp 1926 and pseudotaeniopus Galindo and Blanton 1954, a detailed study and comparison of the types and other identified specimens at the U. S. National Museum, and a critical review of the original and subsequent descriptions have been made. As...

This paper proposes an algebraic way of sentence valuations in a semiring. Actually, throughout the paper only valuations in the ring of integers with usual addition and multiplication are considered. These valuations take into consideration both words and their positions within the sentences. Two synonymy relations, with respect to a given valuation, are introduced. All sentences that are syno...