A method of automatically extracting synonymous collocations from
monolingual corpora and a small bilingual corpus is proposed. The
methodology includes generating candidate synonymous collocations and
selecting synonymous collocations as a function of translation
information, including collocation translations and probabilities.
Candidate synonymous collocations with similarity scores that exceed a
threshold are extracted as synonymous collocations. The extracted
collocations can be used later in language generation by substituting
synonymous collocations for applications such as writing assistance
programs.
