Semantic Representations of Near-Synonyms for Automatic Lexical Choice Philip Edmonds Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 1999 We develop a new computational model for representing the fine-grained meanings of nearsynonyms and the differences between them. We also develop a sophisticated lexical-choice process that can decide which of several near-...

UNLABELLED We present a new database, GPSDB (Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase) which collects gene/protein names, in a species specific way, from 14 main biological resources. A web-based search interface gives access to the database: given a gene/protein name, it retrieves all synonyms for this entity and queries Medline with a set of user-selected terms. AVAILABILITY GPSDB is freely avail...

We present Schema Builder, a web-based user interface to create NLP schemas representing variables to be extracted from clinical text. Schema Builder allows the user to create rich concept-oriented, unambiguous schemas that consist of definitions, linguistic and semantic attributes, synonyms, and mappings to standardized vocabularies. The application assists the user by leveraging a detailed ge...

The New World species of Dohrniphora lacking large hind tibial setae are revised, with 139 species recognized, most from the Neotropical Region. Of these, 88 are described as new to science. New synonymies are as follows: D. denticulata Borgmeier is a junior subjective synonym of D. penicillata Borgmeier, D. caverna Disney and D. recurvata Borgmeier are both junior subjective synonyms of D. div...

In this paper we present an automatic method for extraction of synonyms of verbs from an explanatory dictionary based only on hyponym/hyperonym relations existing between the verbs defined and the genus used in their definitions. The set of pairs verb-genus can be considered as a directed graph, so we applied an algorithm to identify cycles in these kind of structures. We found that some cycles...

We present a knowledge-rich approach to Japanese coreference resolution. In Japanese, proper noun coreference and common noun coreference occupy a central position in coreference relations. To improve coreference resolution for such language, wide-coverage knowledge of synonyms is required. We first acquire knowledge of synonyms from large raw corpus and dictionary definition sentences, and res...