the purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their persian meanings. a total of 73 iranian language learners studying english translation participated in the study. for the first purpose, 36 freshmen from an ...

Data for the initial gene synonym dictionary was collected from publicly available databases, e.g. LocusLink (Pruitt et al., 2000), FlyBase, or UniProt (Apweiler et al., 2004). In addition to primary gene symbols and names, when known, this initial dictionary also contained alternative synonyms and orthographic variants. Although genome databases, were the principal sources of primary symbols a...

We present an approach for automatically learning synonyms from a corpus of paraphrased tweets. The synonyms are learned by using shallow parse chunks to create candidate synonyms and their context windows, and the synonyms are substituted back into a paraphrase detection system that uses machine translation metrics as features for a classifier. We find a 2.29% improvement in F1 when we train a...