We examine the hypothesis that noun countability is consistent for a given word semantics by way of a series of experiments involving EuroWordNet and the English and Dutch languages. The basic method involves determining a default set of countabilities for each EuroWordNet synset based on countability-mapped words in that synset, and testing the match between these countabilities and those of h...

We would like to describe the relationship between word sense disambiguation (WSD) and language resources (LR) working with word senses. We discuss the problem of sense division and tagging. Exploiting specific features of the inflectional languages for WSD is encouraged. We present WSD methods for Czech ambiguous nouns. The advantage of these methods consists in reducing the manual work by usi...

Turney (2001) has shown that computing the mutual information of a pair of words by using cooccurrence counts obtained via queries to the AltaVista search engine performs very effectively in a synonym detection task. Since manual synonym detection is a challenging task for terminologists, we investigate whether the AltaVista-based Mutual Information (AVMI) method can be applied to the task of f...

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...

The following new synonyms in Diabrotica Chevrolat 1836 are proposed: D.flaviventris Jacoby 1887 and D. tibialis Jacoby 1887 are synonyms of D. adelpha Harold 1875; D. peckii Bowditch 1911 is a synonym of D. bioculata Bowditch 1911; D. nummularis Harold 1877 is a synonym of D. circulata Harold 1875; D. linensis Bechyné 1956 is a synonym of D. trifurcata Jacoby 1887; D. brunneosignata Jacoby 188...

Using co-occurrence statistics to measure word similarities/relatedness has applications in many areas of natural language processing. Our experiment results also indicate that two words with zero co-occurrence statistics could still be related. In this paper, we present two algorithms, both of which were evaluated on 80 synonym test questions from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOE...

The program Synarcher for synonym (and related terms) search in the text corpus of special structure (Wikipedia) was developed. The results of the search are presented in the form of graph. It is possible to explore the graph and search for graph elements interactively. Adapted HITS algorithm for synonym search, program architecture, and programwork evaluation with test examples are presented i...

One genus and species are synonymized in the tribe Empoascini of the subfamily Typhlocybinae. Bhatasca Dworakowska, 1995is a junior synonym of Alebrasca Hayashi & Okada, 1994, Bhatasca rectangulata Qin & Zhang, 2011is a junior synonym of Alebrasca actinidiae Hayashi & Okada, 1994. Furthermore, Bhatasca expansa is (necessarily) transferred to the genus Alebrasca.

In this paper, we present a new methodology for synonym detection based on the combination of global and local distributional similarities of pairs of words. The methodology is evaluated on the noun space of the 50 multiple-choice synonym questions taken from the ESL and reaches 91.30% accuracy using a conditional probabilistic model associated with the cosine similarity measure.