The purpose of this report is to present the study of a linguistic network based on the relation of synonymy. The network has been extracted from a dictionary of synonyms in French. Due to errors and ambiguities in the data, the synonyms are not always grouped into distinct components. To refine the results, we apply a clustering algorithm to the network. Each densely connected cluster is consi...

Zipf's law states that if words of language are ranked in the order of decreasing frequency in texts, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its rank. It is very reliably observed in the data, but to date it escaped satisfactory theoretical explanation. This article suggests that Zipf's law may result from a hierarchical organization of word meanings over the semantic space, which...

In his development of formal semantics for natural language Montague [1970a]– Montague [1973], Richard Montague modeled the meaning (Frege’s sense) of a term A by its Carnap intension CI(A), the function which assigns to each state a, specifying a “possibleworld”, “time” and“context of use”, the denotationden(A)(a) of A in that state. Now this is surely not right: among other things, it makes “...

poecilus beesoni (andrewes) collected at lake izeh (khuzestan) is recorded for the first time for iran. for identification the holotypes of poecilus beesoni and p. affinissimus were compared. based on this study poecilus affinissimus (ali 1967) is synonymized with poecilus beesoni (andrewes, 1927).

This paper is dedicated to the studies of syntactical synonymy as one kinds periphrasing in dichotomy language/ discourse and theory mental kinetism. It establishedthat process transformation language are formed basic (with terminal chain) two or more chains)synonymic periphrases pivotal (primary) syntagm proposition, that actualized form co(n)textually preferential options. On bases semantic v...

In contrast to nouns, little is known about the graded structure of adjective categories. In this study we investigate if adjectives categories show a similar graded structure and explain it using a similarity-based account. The results show a reliable graded structure which is adequately explained by two formal models based on prototypes and exemplars, therefore generalizing the model performa...

In this paper we discuss the possible types of relationships between participant roles in related situation types. We first discuss principles that might determine which roles are present in one type of situation, given the roles present in a related type of situation. While no simple general rules seem to exist, there are useful rules for particular cases. In addition, we discuss how relations...

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...