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What is the semantic difference between 'thing', 'object', 'piece' and 'item'? [closed]
I'm editing an article which talks about early terms for artefacts in the Russian language, but the article is in English. Both Russian and English have a diverse field of synonyms for 'thing' - I was ...
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Database of synonym gradients
I'm going to be analyzing tweets where I care about how confidently someone is expressing an idea. So:
X destroyed Y
Would be express greater confidence than
X beat Y
About 9 months ago ...
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Dimensional reduction with synonomy and polysemy
I was wondering something for a computer science project I am doing. Documents usually have too many distinct words to process on a computer efficiently. One solution is to map all words to a single ...
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Do absolute synonyms exist?
By absolute synonyms, I mean words (in the same language) that are interchangeable in all situations.
There can't be differences in register, meaning, or emotional value.
Is there material that ...
