Word Thesaurus Research Articles

Challenges Confronting the Sustainability of Anti-Epidemic Policies Based on the BERT-Pair-ABSA Model

As a major public health emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic has some uncertainties. Coupling of the uncertainties and anti-epidemic policies easily leads to the spread of negative emotions. It is challenging to maintain the sustainability of anti-epidemic measures. Therefore, this paper aimed to analyze the challenges that the sustainability of anti-epidemic measures is faced with. A topic clustering extension method was proposed, which integrated Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic information with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) contextual information through aspect-based sentiment analysis. In addition, this paper constructed a thesaurus of aspect words from the two stages of dynamic zero-COVID and orderly relaxation of epidemic control. This paper established the BERT-pair-ABSA model for semantic expansion of auxiliary sentences and calculated sentiment polarity to gain insight into the changes in netizens' concerns, emotional states and evolution trends at different stages. The research results showed: (1) Compared with the benchmark model, the proposed sentiment analysis model had better classification accuracy and was applicable to the sentiment classification of short texts in the epidemic situation; (2) During the dynamic zero-COVID stage, netizens paid attention to grassroots epidemic management and the scope of lockdown and epidemic control, which were closely related to both specific lockdown and control management, and the implementation of regional epidemic management; and (3) in the orderly relaxation stage of epidemic control, netizens were concerned about drug guarantee, medical care guarantee, personal health protection and health protection of special population groups, and negative emotions always dominated in drug guarantee, medical care guarantee and health protection of special groups. The negative sentiment of drug guarantee, medical care guarantee and health protection of special groups always dominated. The results provided an empirical basis for the optimization and adjustment of the anti-epidemic policies.

Методика подготовки в школу дошкольников новейшими технологиями и компьютерными программами

The following article describes new aspects of computer and software utilization in the forms of games for preschoolers with the use of the latest technologies and methods for the purpose of effective preparation for school. The creation and the appliance of programs in the forms of games aimed at focusing, memory improvement, logical thinking, teachings of alphabets of three languages, teaching of robotics, constructing and assembling parts of a robot helps in preschoolers’ preparation for school. The present work shows the method of teachings of parts of a machine or a robot by the means of completing other exercises such as learning English words or math tasks, it also promotes usage of the newest STEAM technologies and appliance of mnemonic in memory control for more efficient memorizing of new knowledge. In the beginning of studies as a warm-up it is possible to use programs for child’s focusing, concentrating, memory improving and logical thinking. It allows to begin other exercises aimed at acquisition of knowledge in different fields. The article describes the methods of teachings of foreign words associating them with the words of first or Russian language based on the methods of mnemonic, comparison, analysis and synthesis of data. The result of teachings with such methods offered the children knowledge of alphabets of three languages, it also allowed the children to concentrate, develop and improve their visual and logical memory, the children independently noted the similarities and differences of letters and pronunciation. Education in STEAM technologies and mnemonic offers the new approach to full development with child’s entrance in the world of knowledge of alphabets of three languages, the thesaurus of English words, based on effective methods of mnemonic.

An Evaluation of Online and Automated English Writing Assistants: Collocations and Idioms Checkers

In this paper, I attempt to investigate whether online writing checkers, including tools looking at grammar, punctuation, spelling and composition, do in fact help potential ESL writers, and if so, to which extent, in what areas, to what effect and at what cost. The small-scale study involves 23 university level ESL students who compose various texts as part of their training. Data was collected using pre and post writing samples, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The analysis used a descriptive statistical method, Likert-scale and correlations and qualitative analysis for the three methods respectively. The results are inconclusive as students reported different opinions. It was found however that students who are frequent users of features such as MS Word Thesaurus and Online Corpora are more likely to incorporate online writing checkers and therefore found them more helpful. It was also found that regardless of their effect, students always welcomed tools available that can provide feedback to their compositions. The writing software used, AccurIT, also showed improvements in students’ ability to write correct collocations.

Sistem Pencarian Informasi Berbasis Ontologi untuk Jalur Pendakian Gunung Menggunakan Query Bahasa Alami dengan Penyajian Peta Interaktif

Mountain climbing path information has been widely available on the internet. However, to get information that suits the needs of climbers take time to browse and compare all the available information. The diversity of the search results content actually confuse the climbers. This research aims to provide a solution to the problems faced by climbers, by developing an information retrieval system for mountain climbing path using semantic technology (ontology) based approach . The system is developed by using two knowledge base (ontology), ontology Bahasa represents linguistic knowledge and ontology Mountaineering represents mountaineering knowledge. The system is designed to process and understand natural language input form. The process of understanding the natural language based on syntactic and semantic analysis using the rules of Indonesian grammar. The results of the research that has been conducted shows that the system is able to understand natural language input and is capable of detecting input that is not in accordance with the rules of Indonesian grammar both syntactically and semantically. The system is also able to use a thesaurus of words in the search process. Quantitative test results show that the system is able to understand 69% of inputs are taken at random from the respondents.

Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation: Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt, on Psychology and Metaphysics By Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin

Avicenna made a late entry into medieval Hebrew philosophy; the Andalusian roots and Averroan orientation of most Jewish thinkers did not make for a sympathetic audience. Small portions of the Avicennan corpus were rendered into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Shem Tov Falaquera. A good deal of Avicennan thought was accessible by way of citations in Averroes. In the beginning of the fourteenth century, Todros Todrosi decided to produce Hebrew translations of the sections on psychology and metaphysics from al-Najāt. His translations are the subject of the book under review by Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin. Hers is a study of the translation of philosophical texts, not one in the history of philosophy. There is an introductory survey of the Hebrew translation movement, and additional probes into the historical and philological circumstances of these translations. I call attention in particular to the fine essay on ‘The Hebrew Tradition of Literalism’, outlining the efforts made to produce translations that are as close as possible to the Arabic, beginning with Judah Ibn Tibbon, who had the advantage of growing up in an arabophone culture. The translations carried on with Judah’s descendants and their followers, who, however well they may have learned the Arabic language, were increasingly removed from an Arabic speaking environment and more likely to be led to inaccuracies. The bulk of the book, however, is taken up by critical editions of Todrosi’s translations and its philological analysis. The latter still relies a good deal, as it must, on the pioneering work of Moshe Goshen-Gottstein. Berzin amasses a veritable thesaurus of Arabic words, especially those considered to be ‘technical terms’, and their Hebrew equivalents. To her great credit, she includes Hebrew texts by Levi Gersonides, who though not a translator, was a brilliant philosopher and scientist, and someone who had closely examined Avicenna’s opinions.

The AMA dictionary of business and management

Now students, instructors, and professionals everywhere can find clear, authoritative, explanations of more than 6,000 key business terms. Prepared by a noted encyclopedist, The AMA Dictionary of Business and Management covers a vast range of terminology from all areas of business including management, strategy, finance, human resources, economics, marketing, sales, insurance, and international business. The book explains accounting rules, legal terminology, slang and buzzwords, acronyms, management theories, historical figures, economic concepts, performance metrics, and more—all the crucial ideas that have transformed business practices and management science in the past 25 years. In addition to concise definitions, this indispensable reference includes longer entries for ideas needing more elaborate explanations, as well as a pronunciation guide for difficult words, special sections on usage, and a thesaurus of related words. While quick definitions abound online, The AMA Dictionary of Business and Management supplies the depth and clarity lacking in most “webinitions.” And it includes thousands of technical terms omitted from even premier unabridged dictionaries. From Abilene paradox to zero-based budgeting, this is an essential resource for anyone serious about business.

A Rule-Based Approach to Sentiment Classification of Chinese Microblogging Texts

Chinese microblogging texts are always short and casual, which bring some troubles to the traditional sentiment classification methods based on learning. To overcome this problem, we use a rule-based approach to classify the sentiment of Chinese microblogging texts. According to the characteristics of Chinese microblogging texts, we construct a thesaurus of subjective words for it, summarize the basic semantic rules expressing emotion and propose a rule-based approach to sentiment classification of Chinese microblogging texts. Finally, we compare our approach with a SVM-based approach. Our rule-based approach achieves an accuracy of 0.865, which is better than that of SVM-based approach.

Text Relatedness Based on a Word Thesaurus

The computation of relatedness between two fragments of text in an automated manner requires taking into account a wide range of factors pertaining to the meaning the two fragments convey, and the pairwise relations between their words. Without doubt, a measure of relatedness between text segments must take into account both the lexical and the semantic relatedness between words. Such a measure that captures well both aspects of text relatedness may help in many tasks, such as text retrieval, classification and clustering. In this paper we present a new approach for measuring the semantic relatedness between words based on their implicit semantic links. The approach exploits only a word thesaurus in order to devise implicit semantic links between words. Based on this approach, we introduce Omiotis, a new measure of semantic relatedness between texts which capitalizes on the word-to-word semantic relatedness measure (SR) and extends it to measure the relatedness between texts. We gradually validate our method: we first evaluate the performance of the semantic relatedness measure between individual words, covering word-to-word similarity and relatedness, synonym identification and word analogy; then, we proceed with evaluating the performance of our method in measuring text-to-text semantic relatedness in two tasks, namely sentence-to-sentence similarity and paraphrase recognition. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed method outperforms every lexicon-based method of semantic relatedness in the selected tasks and the used data sets, and competes well against corpus-based and hybrid approaches.

Word Association Testing and Thesaurus Construction: A Pilot Study

ABSTRACT This pilot study examines the use of word association testing in the derivation of user-derived descriptors, descriptor hierarchies, and categories of inter-term relationships for the purpose of thesaurus construction. Ten participants, who were students, were presented with a test-bed of 15 domain-specific stimulus terms and were asked to provide as many response words as they could for each stimulus term and to describe how the response and stimulus terms are inter-related. The word association test was successful in generating a significant number of word pairs and facet indicators that could be used to display inter-term relationships in thesauri.

Banal Geopolitics Resumed

Jazira. Arabic for “island and “peninsula”. The conventional word for the Arabian Peninsula, or what in English, but not in Arabic, is termed “Arabia”. Used as a name for the pan‐Arab satellite TV station based in Qatar since 1996. Also used by Osama bin Laden for Saudi Arabia, a name he rejects, jazirat Muhammad, “the peninsula of [the Prophet] Muhammad”. The use of this inclusive term by the al‐Qa'ida leader would seem to imply, (i) that all of the Arabian Peninsula is one territory, with no distinction between Saudi Arabia, which is four‐fifths of the territory, and the other six states, Yemen, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates; and (ii) that the whole of this territory, not just the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and their environs are sacred territory (see Mecca). The former assumption is seen by non‐Saudis as an expression of expansionism, the latter has no legal or scriptural foundation. (Halliday 2002:15) Usual: accustomed … traditional; in character, natural, household, familiar … banal, commonplace, common, ordinary (Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases 1984:258)

Using an Internet grant and scholarship notification service as a research tool.

By using specific key words, clinicians can use an Internet database service to identify federally funded grant and scholarship opportunities--opportunities more frequently sought by basic scientists. The authors hypothesized that such an Internet service could be used as a research tool to examine and compare the clinical research preferences of potential medical and bioscience investigators. The authors selected 577 key words from an online key word thesaurus used by both the federal government and ScienceWise.com. These key words formed a survey instrument to measure the research interests of 40 family medicine academic faculty members of a college of osteopathic medicine. The findings were compared to a survey by ScienceWise.com of its 102,578 subscribers and to previous surveys of nonacademic clinicians. Results indicate an efficient means of determining research interests as well as a method of alerting academic clinicians/nonclinicians and basic scientists to current funding opportunities.

How to name a prokaryote?: Etymological considerations, proposals and practical advice in prokaryote nomenclature

This essay tries to bring together the most important aspects of etymology in prokaryote names, the theoretical basis and the practical application. The scientific names of prokaryotes are formed from a large thesaurus of Latin and Greek words and word elements. The rules for forming such names are explained and discussed (including pronunciation and accentuation). Elaborate advice is given for forming generic names and specific epithets in general as well as from personal and geographic names, from names of biota that host prokaryotes and from names of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Further, names based on words of other than Latin or Greek origin as well as so-called arbitrary names are explained and their formation is exemplified. Names of the highest taxa are critically discussed. Examples of case histories of malformed names are given. Practical etymology is described for genera and species. A number of proposals are made for further developing the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria with respect to an easier understanding of etymology.

Software Reviews : Microsoft Bookshelf 1996/1997 Edition

Bookshelf is a comprehensive multimedia reference work including nine books: The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1996, The American Heritage Dictionary (third edition), The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, The People's Chronology, The Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, the National Five-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory, The Microsoft Bookshelf Internet Directory 96, and The Concise Encarta 96 World Atlas. Overall, there are 2,500 images, over 5 hours of sound, 150 video and animation clips, and over 80,000 pronuncia tions included. The design of the software allows for easy searching and cutting-and-pasting of information across the books included, as well as full integration with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Works.

Jane Roberts & Christian Kaye, with Lynne Grundy, A Thesaurus of Old English, Cecily Clarke, Words, Names and History

Jane Roberts &amp; Christian Kaye, with Lynne Grundy, <i>A Thesaurus of Old English,</i> Cecily Clarke, <i>Words, Names and History</i>

And for my next trick…

Thesauruses, or if you are more classically inclined thesauri, appear to be in vogue. In ET12 (Oct 87), we reviewed the latest Longman revision of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, which the company had first published in 1852. Then, in ET14 (Apr 88) we drew attention to the rather surprising facsimile reproduction by Bloomsbury of the original 1852 Roget. Now, it is both relevant and important to highlight some developments on the part of a third British publisher, Collins, who have brought out not one but two new wordbooks:• The COLLINS School Thesaurus, ISBN 0-00-313318-4, £5.95: This is actually an Australian work, first published by Jacaranda Press in 1986 under the copyright of Macquarie University, New South Wales, and edited by Linsay Knight. The blurb claims ‘over 940 word groups, each consisting of words and phrases with closely related meanings’. The keyword in each group is explained, after which its associate words take their turn, as shown in the group for the verb fall reproduced below. The school thesaurus is a concise and powerful tool, lucidly organized and complemented by an easy-to-use index.• The COLLINS Dictionary and Thesaurus in One Volume, 0-00-433186-9, £11.95; Collins already had a concise version of their standard dictionary of English, and a companion thesaurus. The trick here has been to combine them, so that the thesaurus section runs along the bottom of each page, in time with the alphabetic columns. The blurb says: ‘Here for the first time in one handy volume the reader is offered a general-purpose Dictionary and a Thesaurus in dictionary form’. And the blurb is right, as far as we know. Collins claim 71,000 dictionary references and 250,000 thesaurus ‘synonyms’. We already have on our shelves the volumes before they were unified, and have concluded that the unification is to be preferred. (See sample page.)

The kaleidoscopic mind of Peter Mark Roget.

PETER MARK ROGET died on 12 September 1869, Nevertheless, he is more widely known today than he ever was in his heyday. His name has endured a full century, and may indeed endure for ever, primarily because of the great popularity, extraordinary sale, and unforgettable title of his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. This astonishing collection of interchangeable parts of speech, ‘classified and arranged … so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition’, was first published in 1852, long after Roget had retired from medical practice and shortly after he had given up his post as secretary of the Royal Society. He was already 73 years old, but since he could not slacken his habitual pace, he continued to work unceasingly on revision after revision until there were twenty‐eight revisions when he died seventeen years later. After his death, his son, John Lewis Roget, edited the Thesaurus until 1908; a grandson, Samuel Romilly Roget, then took over the editorship and retained control over the legacy until 1936.

The Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

The Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

THESAURUS — A NEW WORD IN DOCUMENTATION

‘Thesaurus’ comes from the Greek—a storehouse or treasury. The Shorter Oxford English dictionary gives 1736 for the English usage ‘a treasury or storehouse of knowledge, as a dictionary, encyclopaedia or the like’. In 1852, Peter Mark Roget published his Thesaurus of English words and phrases: ‘a collection … arranged, not in alphabetical order as they are in a dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express… The object aimed at is, the idea being given, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed.’ All who write English have heard of this thesaurus.

A Thesaurus of Medical Words and Phrases

A Thesaurus of Medical Words and Phrases

Recent Literature A Thesaurus of Medical Words and Phrases . By Wilfred M. Barton, M.D., and Walter A. Wells, M.D. pp. 534. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders &amp; Co. 1903.

Recent Literature A Thesaurus of Medical Words and Phrases . By Wilfred M. Barton, M.D., and Walter A. Wells, M.D. pp. 534. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders &amp; Co. 1903.