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The SPECIALIST Lexicon

Synonyms (SM.DB)

Descriptions:

Cognitive synonymy pairs in the Lexicon from our 3 source models are retrieved in this file.

Fields:

FieldNameNotes
1Index StringIndex String by removing punctuation and lowercase of field 2
2BASBase form
3SCASyntactic category (value)
4BASBase form of synonyms
5SCASyntactic category (value)
6SRCSource of synonyms
  • [CUI]: Concept Unique Identifier
  • [EUI]: Unique Identifier Number for Lexical Entries
  • [NLP_LVG]: from Natural Language Processing - Lexical Variant Generation

Algorithm:

Synonyms (lexSynonyms) are enhanced in 2017+ release. Please refer to design documents for details.