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...

The tribal and generic classification of the diverse ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is revised to reflect recent molecular phylogenetic information and a reappraisal of ponerine morphological diversity. The monogeneric tribe Thaumatomyrmecini (Thaumatomyrmex) is newly synonymized under Ponerini (syn. nov.), and the diverse genus Pachycondyla is fragmented into 19 genera, larg...

This paper describes the process of creation and review of a new lexico-semantic resource for the classical studies: AncientGreekWordNet. The candidate sets of synonyms (synsets) are extracted from Greek-English dictionaries, on the assumption that Greek words translated by the same English word or phrase have a high probability of being synonyms or at least semantically closely related. The pr...

Micaria nivosa L. Koch is a rare spider belonging to the Gnaphosidae family. The paper presents an analysis of historical data, synonyms, diagnostic features and number new localities M. in Poland.

One problem of automatic translation is the evaluation of the result. The result should be as close to a human reference translation as possible, but varying word order or synonyms have to be taken into account for the evaluation of the similarity of both. In the conventional methods, researchers tend to employ many resources such as the synonyms vocabulary, paraphrasing, and text entailment da...

Language learners are confused by near-synonyms and often look for answers from the Web. However, there is little to aid them in sorting through the overwhelming load of information that is offered. In this paper, we propose a new research problem: suggesting example sentences for learning word distinctions. We focus on near-synonyms as the first step. Two kinds of one-class classifiers, the GM...