The synonyms of biological species names are shown to be an important component in comprehensive searches of electronic scientific literature databases but they are not well leveraged within the major literature databases examined. For accepted or valid species names in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) which have synonyms in the system, and which are found in citations within ...

Automatically acquiring synonymous words (synonyms) from corpora is a challenging task. For this task, methods that use only one kind of resources are inadequate because of low precision or low recall. To improve the performance of synonym extraction, we propose a method to extract synonyms with multiple resources including a monolingual dictionary, a bilingual corpus, and a large monolingual c...

Because the Princeton WordNet has proved a valuable resource in NLP, many approaches have been developed to support the automatic creation of WordNets for languages other than English. In this paper, we present a method for grouping synonyms and definitions which we believe, can provide the basis for a merge approach to WordNet creation, that is an approach which starts by defining synsets (gro...

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...

Identifying the relationships among program elements is useful for program understanding, debugging, and analysis. One such relationship is synonymy. Function synonyms are functions that play a similar role in code, e.g. functions that perform initialization for different device drivers, or functions that implement different symmetric-key encryption schemes. Function synonyms are not necessaril...

In rare or undiagnosed diseases, physicians rely upon genotype and phenotype information in order to compare abnormalities to other known cases and to inform diagnoses. Patients are often the best sources of information about their symptoms and phenotypes. The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) contains over 12,000 terms describing abnormal human phenotypes. However, the labels and synonyms in the ...

One of the most common lexical misuse problems in the second language context concerns near synonyms. Dictionaries and thesauri often overlook the nuances of near synonyms and make reference to near synonyms in providing definitions. The semantic differences and implications of near synonyms are not easily recognized and often fail to be acquired by L2 learners. This study addressed the distinc...

This paper aims to explore how translators translate both the connotative and denotative meanings of near-synonyms from Quran into English language. The article will shed light on phenomenon near-synonymy, as well its translator’s background could have influenced their translation. There has been a dearth attention translation in Quran; accordingly, this study examines three pairs particular tr...

An approach for identifying authors using synonym sets is presented. Drawing on modern psycholinguistic research, we justify the basis of our theory. Having formally defined the operations needed to algorithmically determine authorship, we present the results of applying our method to a corpus of classic literature. We argue that this technique of author recognition is both accurate as an autho...