The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent similarities and differences among one-word adverbials (surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly) in terms meaning, register collocational constraints. These are considered roughly synonymous one another. But we should be skeptical about their full synonymy, though dictionary meanings show that these words can substitutable with In order demo...

This paper proposes an extension of METEOR, a well-known MT evaluation metric, for multiple target languages using an in-house lexical resource called DBnary (an extraction from Wiktionary provided to the community as a Multilingual Lexical Linked Open Data). Today, the use of the synonymy module of METEOR is only exploited when English is the target language (use of WordNet). A synonymy module...

This paper presents different methods tested by the University of Avignon and Bertin at the TREC-7 evaluation. A first section describes several methodologies used for query expansion: synonymy and stemming. Relevance feedback is applied both to the TIPSTER corpora and Internet documents. In a second section, we describe a classification algorithm based on hierarchical and clustering methods. T...

Automatic classification of news articles is a relevant problem due to the large amount of news generated every day, so it is crucial that these news are classified to allow for users to access to information of interest quickly and effectively. Traditional classification systems represent documents as bag-of-words (BoW), which are oblivious to two problems of language: synonymy and polysemy. T...

This paper presents a search system in the Internet capable to achieve the conceptual matching between the concepts contained in a web page and the implicit concepts in the user’s query, that is, the proposed system is able to retrieve the web pages that contain the concepts (not the words) specified in the query (called Clustered Organized Conceptual queries in this paper). This system uses th...

This paper demonstrates that the treatment of nominal derivational morphology in Pān. ini’s grammar of the Sanskrit language (ca. 500BC) is based on an architecture strikingly similar to that of modern inheritance-based lexica. Specifically, Pān. ini adopts a single inheritance network with defaults to account concisely for intricate cases of affix homonymy and affix synonymy with minimal redun...

The correct generic name and its authorship of southern snowfinches has been a matter of debate since the 1980s (Kašin 1982; Nejfel'dt 1986; Stepanân 1990) until Mlíkovský (1998) showed that Pyrgilauda is the correct generic name and that it should be attributed to Bonaparte (1850: 511), not to Verreaux (1871: 40), because Bonaparte (1850: 511) first listed that name in synonymy, because it was...