Abstract: | Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning. They can be any
part of speech, if both words are the same part of speech. Synonyms are
important for Natural Language Processing. For example in full-text
search one of the relevant signals for finding a relevant web page is
the existence of the query words or similar words in the document. To
achieve this, the search query is expanded using all possible synonyms to
make the search as broad as possible. In this work, all kinds of methods
for automatic synonyms discovery are presented and compared. Then
some evaluation methods are proposed for evaluation of the discovered
synonyms. Last, one method is thoroughly tested on the proposed
evaluation methods.
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