Using Multiple Hybrid Strategies to Extract Chinese Synonyms from Encyclopedia Resource

Automatic extraction of Chinese synonyms plays an important role in information retrieval and semantic resource construction. Based on the analyzing and comparing the different technologies of synonyms extraction, this paper proposes multi-strategy method including literal similarity algorithm, pattern matching algorithm and PageRank algorithm to extraction Chinese synonyms from encyclopedia resource. The method is language-independent and supports any domain. In addition, it can be able to extract synonyms in various types of expressions. The experiment result shows that the method is feasible and practical.