Dynamic Synoptic Scheme as a Tool for Searching Phraseological Synonyms

Abstract

Most of today's dictionaries of synonyms cover the lexeme level, whereas the clichés, aphorisms, and phraseology are underrepresented in their entries. One of the best ways of ordering the phrase-level synonyms is by relating them to the keyword descriptors within an onomasiological dictionary macrostructure, which would provide easier access to the users. Onomasiological dictionaries scarcely appear in modern lexicography due to difficulties of their usage. In the computational format, they become much more manageable thanks to the possibilities of the formal search. Since these dictionaries base on classificatory synoptic schemes, their compilation requires deep analytical data processing and intellectual efforts. An extremely detailed hierarchy would be difficult to use, and, conversely, a simple one hardly covers the most relevant semantic features of the entries.