synonymy is one of the central topics in both modern and traditional linguistics. there have been different discussions around synonymy such as disagreement about its acceptance or denial, the rate of dynamicity, capability, and domain of application and the ways of applying it. the importance of synonymy arises when the relation between word and meaning forms as a consequence of users’ communi...

OBJECTIVE The integration of SNOMED CT into the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) involved the alignment of two views of synonymy that were different because the two vocabulary systems have different intended purposes and editing principles. The UMLS is organized according to one view of synonymy, but its structure also represents all the individual views of synonymy present in its source ...

Synonymy is a pivot relation in NLP but remains problematic. Putting forward, we introduce the notion of relative synonymy, to circumvent some diÆculties among which possible polysemy and contextual interpretation. In the framework of conceptual vectors, it is then possible to formalize test functions for synonymy and to experiment their use in thematic analysis that will help text classi cation.

Automatic extraction of semantic information, if successful, offers to languages with little or poor resources, the prospects of creating ontological resources inexpensively, thus providing support for commonsense reasoning applications in those languages. In this paper we explore the automatic extraction of synonymy information from large corpora using two complementary techniques: a generic b...

Automatic extraction of semantic information, if successful, offers to languages with little or poor resources, the prospects of creating ontological resources inexpensively, thus providing support for common-sense reasoning applications in those languages. In this paper we explore the automatic extraction of synonymy information from large corpora using two complementary techniques: a generic ...

Automatic extraction of semantic information, if successful, offers to languages with little or poor resources, the prospects of creating ontological resources inexpensively, thus providing support for commonsense reasoning applications in those languages. In this paper we explore the automatic extraction of synonymy information from large corpora using two complementary techniques: a generic b...