Two words which share a sense are commonly called synonyms. They are equivalent in the context of that sense, and can be used interchangeably in a sentence which utilizes that sense. Two words are rarely synonyms for each other for all of their senses. With the advent of on-line-accessible lexicons it is possible to identify those words which are, in all contexts, interchangeable or `equivalent...

This paper describes the use of WordNet in a new technique for collocation extraction. The approach is based on restrictions on the possible substitutions for synonyms within candidate phrases. Following a general discussion of collocations and their applications, current extraction methods are briefly described. This is followed by a detailed description of the new approach and results and eva...

We investigate in this paper the degree of overlap between synonym sets of translated word pairs across three languages: French, English and Romanian. We use for this purpose a French Synonym Dictionary, a Romanian Synonym Dictionary, Princeton’s WordNet and Google Translate API. We build a database containing pairs of (translated) words from the three languages, along with their corresponding ...

The current longitudinal study examined the consequences of spouses' tendencies to forgive their partners over the first 2 years of 72 new marriages. Though positive main effects between forgiveness and marital outcomes emerged cross-sectionally, spouses' tendencies to forgive their partners interacted with the frequency of those partners' negative verbal behaviors to predict changes in marital...

This paper is a reply to an accompanying set of six commentaries by Sidman; Hayes and Barnes; Schusterman, Kastak, and Reichmuth; Tonneau and Sokolowski; Lowenkron; and Moerk. Those commentaries were prompted by our article ‘‘On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior’’ (1996), which was, in turn, followed by 26 commentaries and a reply. In the course of the present reply, we further ...

19 male Es employing a Taffel-type task conducted a verbal conditioning experiment with 60 female Ss. I the Es were led to expect their Ss to show verbal conditioning, and 4 were led to expect no verbal conditioning. 4 the Es in each of these groups were led to feel that it would be desirable if their Ss showed conditioning, and J were led to feel that it would be undesirable. Those Es who (a) ...

This study utilized a modification of Strupp's film method to focus upon the verbal patterns of experienced and novice psychotherapists. Results indicated some striking differences between the 2 groups of S therapists with experts relative to novices using more nonquestions and averaging more words per given statement. These and other differences are discussed with particular reference to sever...

87 The article that follows, “Antecedents and Consequences of Word,” is reprinted with permission from the European Journal of Behavior Analysis. It is one more piece of an on-going longer work. The article especially emphasizes the role of multiple causation in verbal behavior in the converging effects of verbal governance, verbal shaping, attention to verbal stimuli, and the replication of ve...

In this paper a new approach for achieving the conceptual matching between user queries and web documents is presented. The key of the proposed system is to use FIS-CRM (Fuzzy Interrelations and Synonymy Concept Representation Model) to represent the indexed web pages. This model (also implemented in the FISS metasearcher) is supported by a fuzzy synonymy dictionary and various thematic fuzzy o...

Discourse is a complete form of language unit arranged in its entirety so that it becomes single contains theme. There are two types discourse drama scripts, namely textual and contextual discourse. This research descriptive qualitative because this tries to collect data based on the literature used as analysis material. In grammatical relationships, there 105 reference which include personal, ...