WN is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organised into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different kinds of semantic relations link the synonym sets (synsets). WN is based on word meaning; all of the words that can express a given sense ...

Resolving polysemy and synonymy is required for high-quality information extraction. We present ConceptResolver, a component for the Never-Ending Language Learner (NELL) (Carlson et al., 2010) that handles both phenomena by identifying the latent concepts that noun phrases refer to. ConceptResolver performs both word sense induction and synonym resolution on relations extracted from text using ...

We automatically extract adverse drug reactions (ADRs) from consumer reviews provided on various drug social media sites to identify adverse reactions not reported by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but touted by consumers. We utilize various lexicons, identify patterns, and generate a synonym set that includes variations of medical terms. We identify “expected” and “unexpe...

The articles [32], [15], [38], [33], [19], [39], [13], [40], [18], [12], [16], [1], [10], [30], [2], [35], [27], [28], [29], [37], [3], [14], [31], [24], [11], [42], [34], [4], [5], [6], [22], [41], [17], [8], [7], [25], [36], [23], [21], [26], and [9] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. Let I be a set and let J be a relational structure yielding many sorted set indexed by I. W...

Interest in domain-specific search is growing rapidly, creating a need for domain-specific synonym discovery. The best-performing methods for this task rely on query logs and are thus difficult to use in many circumstances. We propose a method for domain-specific synonym discovery that requires only a domain-specific corpus. Our method substantially outperforms previously proposed methods in re...

This study examines the internal semantic structure of a set of near-synonym adjectives: important, essential, vital, necessary and crucial. I used the British National Corpus (BNC) and 9 traditional reference materials as source data. I applied a corpus-based behavioural profile approach. The study focuses its attention on their distributional patterns especially types of nouns that each adjec...

Current synonym extraction methods work in a “closed” way. Given the problem word and set of target words, researchers have to choose words synonymous with the problem word using features such as lexical patterns and distributional similarities. This paper tries to discover synonyms in an “open” way and presents a synonym extraction framework based on self-supervised learning. We first analysis...

We present a method for the extraction of synonyms for German particle verbs based on a word-aligned German-English parallel corpus: by translating the particle verb to a pivot, which is then translated back, a set of synonym candidates can be extracted and ranked according to the respective translation probabilities. In order to deal with separated particle verbs, we apply re-ordering rules to...

Introduction: Protein and gene names change frequently as research reveals details about these entities. 1 Because authors often use synonyms, information retrieval requires identification of these alternate names. Many biological databases — such as GenBank 2 and SWISSPROT 3 — have synonym databases; however, the databases may not be complete. Furthermore, to our knowledge, the extraction of s...