5. The storage medium of claim 4 , wherein lexically comparing the term of the query phrase and the term of the synonym phrase includes one or more of the following: removing punctuation and/or spacing from a term; using an edit-distance technique to determine whether a substantial number of characters match between the term of the query phrase and the term of the synonym phrase; removing diacritical marks from a term; using a pseudostem technique to determine whether the term of the query phrase and the term of the synonym phrase share a common prefix; using language-specific linguistic rules to facilitate detecting gender and/or number stemming across the term of the query phrase and the term of the synonym phrase; identifying an abbreviation for a term; stripping vowels from a term; or identifying non-lexical synonyms for the term of the query phrase or the term of the synonym phrase.
4. The storage medium of claim 3 , wherein determining that a term of the query phrase is a lexical synonym of a corresponding term of the synonym phrase or shares meaning with the corresponding term of the synonym phrase includes determining that the query term and the term of the synonym phrase share a common stem.