2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: identifying, based on a language-specific mapping, a respective common form of the one or more query terms for one or more of the one or more query terms; identifying, for the one or more query terms, a respective synonym based on the respective common forms of the one or more query terms; and revising the search query based on the one or more identified synonyms.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the language-specific mapping comprises a collection of one or more character conversion maps, the character conversion maps specifying one or more input characters and one or more output characters to which the one or more input characters are mapped.