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The Computer Journal 1987 30(6):551-557; doi:10.1093/comjnl/30.6.551
© 1987 by British Computer Society
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A Flexible Synonym Interface with Application Examples in CAL and Help Environments

G. M. Gwei * and E. Foxley

Computer Science Department, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Received 1 April 1986; revised 1 June 1986

In both writing and conversation, different people may use different terminologies for the same concept. This poses problems in computer environments which support conversation. This paper outlines a flexible interface obtained by exploiting any establishable relationships between different terminologies. We illustrate the flexible interface in a Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) environment. We also argue that every application needs an additional component to provide the synonym facility. The environment described incorporates synonym-generation programs based on an on-line version of Roget's Thesaurus.

* This is part of research supported by Cameroon Government BS grant (Cameroon Embassy, London).


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