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<Paper uid="W00-1101">
  <Title>Adapting a synonym database to specific domains</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a method for adapting a general purpose synonym database, like WordNet, to a specific domain, where only a sub-set of the synonymy relations defined in the general database hold.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The method adopts an eliminative approach, based on incrementally pruning the original database. The method is based on a preliminary manual pruning phase and an algorithm for automatically pruning the database. This method has been implemented and used for an Information Retrieval system in the aviation domain.</Paragraph>
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