Two words which share a sense are commonly called synonyms. They are equivalent in the context of that sense, and can be used interchangeably in a sentence which utilizes that sense. Two words are rarely synonyms for each other for all of their senses. With the advent of on-line-accessible lexicons it is possible to identify those words which are, in all contexts, interchangeable or `equivalent...

This paper describes the use of WordNet in a new technique for collocation extraction. The approach is based on restrictions on the possible substitutions for synonyms within candidate phrases. Following a general discussion of collocations and their applications, current extraction methods are briefly described. This is followed by a detailed description of the new approach and results and eva...

We investigate in this paper the degree of overlap between synonym sets of translated word pairs across three languages: French, English and Romanian. We use for this purpose a French Synonym Dictionary, a Romanian Synonym Dictionary, Princeton’s WordNet and Google Translate API. We build a database containing pairs of (translated) words from the three languages, along with their corresponding ...

In this paper a new approach for achieving the conceptual matching between user queries and web documents is presented. The key of the proposed system is to use FIS-CRM (Fuzzy Interrelations and Synonymy Concept Representation Model) to represent the indexed web pages. This model (also implemented in the FISS metasearcher) is supported by a fuzzy synonymy dictionary and various thematic fuzzy o...

OBJECTIVES To quantify semantic inconsistency in UMLS concepts from the perspective of their hierarchical relations and to show through examples how semantically-inconsistent concepts can help reveal erroneous synonymy relations. METHODS Inconsistency is defined in reference to concepts from the UMLS Metathesaurus. Consistency is evaluated by comparing the semantic groups of the two concepts ...

Because synonymy treatment traditionally relies on morphological judgments, it usually causes many problems in species delimitation and in the biodiversity catalogue. For example, Diplopterygium simulans, which belongs to the Gleicheniaceae family, has been considered to be synonymous with D. glaucum or D. giganteum based mainly on the morphology of its pinna rachis and blade. In the absence of...

In this paper we describe the data that will be used to compare the semantic structures that emerge from synonymy in French and in Mandarin. We aim at studying these semantic structures at both a global, lexicographic level, using lexicons, synonymy and translation dictionaries and at a more localised, experimental level, using data collected in parallel psycholinguistic experiments in French a...

This paper reports the results of a preliminary experiment on the detection of semantic variants of terms in a French technical document. The general goal of our work is to help the structuration of terminologies. Two kinds of semantic variants can be found in traditional terminologies : strict synonymy links and fuzzier relations like see-also. We have designed three rules which exploit genera...