Appendicitis is a common and urgent surgical illness with variable manifestations, generous overlap with other clinical syndromes, and significant morbidity, which increases with diagnostic delay. No single sign, symptom, or diagnostic test accurately makes the diagnosis of appendiceal inflammation in all cases. The surgeon’s goals are to evaluate a relatively small population of patients refer...

Laser dyes are organic chemicals whose systematic names are lengthy and confusing. Other names-some jargon, some trade-have come into everyday use, but there is no consistency, and sometimes research workers will have dyes from different suppliers that are identical in structure although different in name. This paper tabulates laser dyes by a characteristic identification number.

This paper proposes a new method of ranking near-synonyms ordered by their suitability of nuances in a particular context. Our method distincts near-synonyms by semantic features extracted from their definition statements in an ordinary dictionary, and ranks them by the types of features and a particular context. Our method is an initial step to achieve a semantic paraphrase system for authorin...

This paper investigates the relation between the number of full valency frames (we do not distinguish between complements and optional adjuncts, both are taken into account) of a verb and the number of its synonyms. It is shown that for Czech verbs from the Prague Dependency Treebank it holds “the greater the full valency of a verb, the more synonyms the verb has”.

were required, (2) disambiguation failed because of missing synonyms, e.g. ”vertebrate” and (3) for several cases the provided gold standard might be incorrect as considered abstracts describe findings in rat or human instead of mouse. Description Examples Unspecific synonym growth retarded, perinatal lethality, long lived Wrong context TGF-beta superfamily, c-myc tumors Unknown ambiguity high ...

Near-synonyms are words that mean approximately the same thing, and which tend to be assigned to the same leaf in ontologies such as WordNet. However, they can differ from each other subtly in both meaning and usage—consider the pair of near-synonyms frugal and stingy— and therefore choosing the appropriate near-synonym for a given context is not a trivial problem. Early work on near-synonyms w...