Nearor quasi-synonyms can have an important role in the task of Information Retrieval since they may help to address the problem of vocabulary mismatch between queries and documents. One current approach to generating quasi-synonyms uses a general similarity measure to score the synonymy of two words based on their context vectors. In contrast, we compare two simple measures that take into acco...

Abstract Among the species of Zingiberaceae family, ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is best known and studied species, with several reported ornamental, medicinal, culinary properties. Many ornamental genus Zingiber are commonly treated as gingers by analogy. This study provides a list Zingiber, information on synonyms comments aspects.

Albert Visser introduced five different categories of interpretations between theories INT0 (the category of synonymy), INT1 (the category of homotopy), INT2 (the category of weak homotopy), INT3 (the category of equivalence), and INT4 (the category of mutual interpretability) [Vis04]. The objects in these categories are first order theories, the morphisms are interpretations up to some level o...

The endemic Australian flower chafer genus Metallesthes Kraatz, 1880 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) is revised. Metallesthes anneliesae Moeseneder & Hutchinson new species is described from southern Queensland and New South Wales. Metallesthes unicolor (Macleay, 1863) revised status is raised from synonymy with Metallesthes metallescens (White, 1859). Metallesthes metallescens and Metal...