The paper presents the detection of syntactic patterns in the Croatian WordNet synset definitions. The detection was performed in order to create unambiguous and consistent synset definitions in the future development of the Croatian WordNet. The rules are implemented in form of finite-state transducers and tested on already existing version of the Croatian WordNet. Results are presented using ...

This paper describes our participation to the TREC 2005 Robust Task. A method of conceptual indexing based on WordNet is used. Both documents and queries are mapped onto WordNet. Thus concepts belonging to WordNet synsets are identified and extracted whereas those having a single sense are expanded.

In this paper, we address the automatic induction of synonym paraphrases for the empirically challenging class of German particle verbs. Similarly to Cocos and Callison-Burch (2016), we incorporate a graph-based clustering approach for word sense discrimination into an existing paraphrase extraction system, (i) to improve the precision of synonym identification and ranking, and (ii) to enlarge ...

We propose the use of WordNet synsets in a syntax-based reordering model for hierarchical statistical machine translation (HPB-SMT) to enable the model to generalize to phrases not seen in the training data but that have equivalent meaning. We detail our methodology to incorporate synsets’ knowledge in the reordering model and evaluate the resulting WordNetenhanced SMT systems on the English-to...

The Agrilus occipitalis species-group is redefined and diagnosed. Two species from this group, Agrilus auriventris Saunders, 1873 and Agrilus occipitalis (Eschscholtz, 1822), are known as the serious pests of cultivated Citrus trees. Overall twenty-three taxa are included in the Agrilus occipitalis species-group. A complete list of references, type material, species examined and distribution is...

In this paper, we address the problem of retrieving objects based on open-vocabulary natural language queries: Given a phrase describing a specific object, e.g., “the corn flakes box”, the task is to find the best match in a set of images containing candidate objects. When naming objects, humans tend to use natural language with rich semantics, including basic-level categories, fine-grained cat...

The status of two doubtful fish species is reviewed. Percis punctata Cuvier, 1829 is confirmed to be a valid species of Parapercis Bleeker, 1863 and a senior synonym of Parapercis guezei Fourmanoir, 1966. A redescription of Parapercis punctata is provided, based on four specimens collected from the western Indian Ocean. Examination of the holotype of Neosillago marmorata Castelnau, 1875 reveale...

This paper proposes a method for identifying synonymous relations in a bilingual lexicon, which is a set of translation-equivalent term pairs. We train a classifier for identifying those synonymous relations by using spelling variations as main clues. We compared two approaches: the direct identification of bilingual synonym pairs, and the merger of two monolingual synonyms. We showed that our ...

We present a corpus-based supervised learning system for coarse-grained sense disambiguation. In addition to usual features for training in word sense disambiguation, our system also uses Base Level Concepts automatically obtained from WordNet. Base Level Concepts are some synsets that generalize a hyponymy sub–hierarchy, and provides an extra level of abstraction as well as relevant informatio...