... and Post-retrieval QE. The Pre-retrieval QE step is based on a biomedical knowledge resource, which is in our case MeSH thesaurus. MeSH is the most popular thesaurus. It has been used to improve retrieval performance [ 3 ]. The QE-related state-of-the-art based on knowledge resources mainly focuses...

...Alexander Sanchez-Behar The bulk of material found in the Thesaurus contains over one thousand melodic patterns arranged into chapters according to interval cycles (referred to as principal tones) that divide one or more octaves into equal parts. Slonimsky devotes the most attention...

... the development of a suite of computer programs to determine and reduce ambiguity in text, and to enable the computer to correctly relate a variety of synonyms to a single concept. Keywords Ambiguity, Concept, Natural language, Polysemy, Roget, Synonymy, Thesaurus. 1. Introduction We will divide our...

... has not been based on a structured evidence base. The Mapping Metaphor project makes use of the huge quantities of data in the Historical Thesaurus of English to provide the first large-scale tool for visualizing and analysing metaphors across the entire record of English language vocabulary...

... of the different ways in which the semantic area of mental health has been conceptualized diachronically across the English language, taking its results from the ‘Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus’ project, which investigated metaphor across the entire history of English. An unhealthy mind...

... Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary impers. impersonal INF infinitive L Latin lOE late Old English ME Middle English MED Middle English Dictionary MS manuscript nom nominative non-impers. non-impersonal NP noun phrase NP-OBJ object noun phrase NP-SBJ subject noun phrase xvi obj objective OE Old...

...Chapter 4 outlines the aims, material, and methodology of the different studies of motion expression in Old and Middle English presented in chapters 5–6: The inventories of motion verbs (based primarily on the Thesaurus of Old English and a definition search in the Middle...

... of Liddell and Scott included many Byzantine texts. Another remarkable project is the Greek-Spanish Dictionary, by Adrados and others. After World War II, new examples continued to appear, the most important of which was the Thesaurus Patrum Graecorum. There are a number of problems...

... on Otmoor Compulexis software computerization in publishing processes Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary lexicography Longman publisher later Pearson Longman Pearson Education Davin Daniel Marcus 1913–1990 Deputy Secretary to the Delegates and Academic Publisher New Oxford...

...Roget's Thesaurus is an outstanding work of English lexicography. When it appeared in 1852, it was the first of its kind. It has been on the bookshelves of almost every educated man and woman in Britain, the United States, and indeed the whole of the English-speaking world ever...

... the special terms needed for the structural analysis of Roget's Thesaurus itself. lexical Maimieux J de semantic semantical Bréal M Darmesteter A Erdmann K O lexicographic al lexicography onomasiological onomasiology vs semasiological Reisig K C Saussure F de synonym synonymous...

... chain of English synonym dictionaries. Together with the books published in the wake of Girard, they are a parallel trail leading to the publication of Roget’s Thesaurus. They pave the way to 1852, the year in which the Thesaurus was published, and beyond. William Perry...

...This chapter analyses Roget’s Thesaurus as a topical dictionary of synonyms based on the usual lexicographical concepts of macrostructure, microstructure, and pragmatic structures. The preface of the Thesaurus is read in the Lockean spirit, the ‘Plan...

... be short-lived, three of them fled to the safety of neighbouring Bijapur. Indi-gofera Hortus Malabaricus Musei Petiveriani Thesaurus Zeylanicus Flora Indica This content is only available as a PDF. ...

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...The chapter discusses the origins and development of thematically organized thesauri with particular reference to English. Dictionaries of synonyms are also covered. Compilation of thesauri, for example Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases and the Historical...

..., the comparative definition of word meanings. Roget's Thesaurus synonymy aequivoca communio nominis cumulative synonymy dictionaries differentiae Fowler H W France Girard Abbé G Plato plurivoca polyonyma Potter S Prodikos of Keos synonym dictionaries comparative dictionaries of synonyms Crabb G...

...By way of a kind of linguistic game, one of the ‘Tables’ of John Wilkins' treatment of a universal language is arranged à la Roget, and one of the entry chapters of Roget's Thesaurus is arranged à la Wilkins. By so doing, the logical and semantic principles are emphasized which...

... polymathy weights and measures apophthegms experiments Kent pocket books science early modern thesaurus commonplace books knowledge textual production classification Münster Sebastian Stanford Henry Brome Richard Collinson Patrick omnigatherum Smyth Edward Thomas Sir Keith Aristotle...

.... A controlled vocabulary regroups a list of key terms relating to a particular field of knowledge as well as their associated definitions, while a thesaurus organizes and structures this list on the basis of the semantic relationships between the terms. The current development of such a thesaurus for terms...