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  <Title>Preferential Presentation of Japanese Near-Synonyms Using Definition Statements</Title>
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5 Conclusion and future work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper proposed a new method of preferential presentation of Japanese near-synonyms in order to treat with semantic suitability against contexts, as a first step of semantic paraphrase system for elaboration. We achieved the effectiveness of using definition statements for extracting fine-grained meanings, especially for denotations. Also, the experimental results showed that our method could rank near-synonyms of an unambiguous word for 71%  in accuracy by non-interpolated average precision, about 10 points higher than non-ordered.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have discussed only the initial step of the elaboration system, thus one of our future work is to handle syntactic and semantic constraints on actual paraphrasings after applying this method.</Paragraph>
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