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  <Title>Acquiring Collocations for Lexical Choice between Near-Synonyms</Title>
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8 Conclusions and Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We presented an unsupervised method to acquire knowledge about the collocational behaviour of near-synonyms.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our future work includes improving the way we combine the five measures for ranking collocations, maybe by giving more weight to the collocations selected by the log-likelihood ratio. We also plan to experiment more with disambiguating the senses of the words in a collocation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Our long-term goal is to acquire knowledge about near-synonyms from corpora and other sources, by bootstrapping with our initial lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences. This includes validating the knowledge already asserted and learning more distinctions.</Paragraph>
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