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  <Title>Preferential Presentation of Japanese Near-Synonyms Using Definition Statements</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Most researches on automatic paraphrasing aim either at document modification for a wide range of NLP applications (Shirai et al., 1998; Tomuro and Lytinen, 2001), at reading comprehension support (Inui and Yamamoto, 2001), or at transformation based on external constraints (Dras, 1998). On the other hand, authoring / revision support is known as another type of paraphrasing which targets at texts in preparation. However, there are not so many researches of such paraphrasing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Paraphrase systems which aim at revising documents can be classified into three types: + Syntactic suitability This type of systems points out spelling or grammatical mistakes and corrects them, such as a grammar checker (Heidorn, 2000).</Paragraph>
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