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  2. A Corpus-Based Investigation of English Synonyms ...

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    ult condition or positione.g., His lack of Synonym: drawback formal schooling e.g., A disadvantage was a serio. . dow. side the disadvantages or less positive aspects of somethingnegative aspect. iving. in the country is, of course, the long commut. disadvantageous aspect.

  3. multiple types of dictionary information during a look-up. While most researchers report dictionaries having a positive effect on vocabulary acquisition, individual learner factors such as language proficiency level, dictionary strategy use, and type of dictionary used seem to be factors affecting vocabulary gains from dictionary look-ups.

  4. The process of integrating thesauri with information retrieval systems started in the early 1990s. The first projects dealt with the creation and maintenance of thesauri based on their representation using data models: the entity-relationship model (Rodríguez Muñoz 1990 and 1992) and the relational scheme (Jones 1993).

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  6. Lesk algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The Lesk algorithm is a classical algorithm for word sense disambiguation introduced by Michael E. Lesk in 1986. [1] It operates on the premise that words within a given context are likely to share a common meaning. This algorithm compares the dictionary definitions of an ambiguous word with the words in its surrounding context to determine the ...

  7. Pros and Cons - Wikipedia

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    Pros and cons, derived from the Latin words "pro" (for) and "contra" (against), may refer to: Pros and Cons (TV series), a television series that aired from 1991 to 1992. Pros & Cons, a 1999 film starring Larry Miller and Tommy Davidson. Pros & Cons (comic strip), a comic strip by Kieran Meehan. "Pros and Cons", an episode of Garfield and Friends.

  8. Filan, Gary; Gerlach, Vernon S. This critical review of the literature on behavioral objectives is presented in four sections: definition of a behavioral objective; the function of a behavioral objective; consistent acceptable format for constructing behavioral objectives; and the pros and cons of behavioral objectives.

  9. suggested that words in a set of synonyms, although sharing the same core meaning, do not constitute all the same grammatical patterns. The two phrases, consist of and be made up of, denote the same literal meaning, which is “to be formed from two or more things or people” (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2014, p. 37).