This paper addresses the task of extending a given synset with additional synonyms taking
into account synonymy strength as a fuzzy value. Given a mono/multilingual synset and a …

We present our progress in developing a novel algorithm to extract synonyms from bilingual
dictionaries. Identification and usage of synonyms play a significant role in improving the …

Automatic synonym extraction plays an important role in many natural language processing
systems, such as those involving information retrieval and question answering. Recently …

Extracting synonyms from dictionaries or corpora is gaining a special attention as synonyms
play an important role in improving NLP application performance. This paper presents a …

In this paper we present a novel approach to minimally supervised synonym extraction. The
approach is based on the word embeddings and aims at presenting a method for synonym …

Automatic determination of synonyms and/or semantically related words has various
applications in Natural Language Processing. Two mainstream paradigms to date, lexicon …

Automatically acquiring synonymous words (synonyms) from corpora is a challenging task.
For this task, methods that use only one kind of resources are inadequate because of low …

This paper presents a new graph-based approach that induces synsets using synonymy
dictionaries and word embeddings. First, we build a weighted graph of synonyms extracted …

Automatic synonyms and semantically related word extraction is a challenging task, useful in
many NLP applications such as question answering, search query expansion, text …

Synonyms extraction is a difficult task to achieve and evaluate. Some studies have tried to
exploit general dictionaries for that purpose, seeing them as graphs where words are related …