10. A computer program product embedded in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for identifying acronym and synonym pairs for a selected target corpus, comprising: program code for analyzing each sentence in a target corpus to identify possible acronym and synonym pairs; program code for determining an occurrence frequency of each identified possible acronym and synonym pair from among a plurality of possible acronym and synonym pairs; program code for determining a maximum possible length for each identified possible acronym and synonym pair; program code for receiving a user-selected relative weighting factor from a user for weighting an occurrence frequency relative to a maximum possible length; program code for scoring each identified possible acronym and synonym pair based on the user-selected weighting factor, occurrence frequency and maximum possible length, and wherein the program code for scoring of each identified possible acronym and synonym pair further includes program code for only scoring pairs with a longer maximum length higher than terms with a shorter maximum length when those pairs have substantially the same occurrence frequency; program code for determining that at least one of the identified acronym and synonym pairs includes a pair in which a longer maximum length higher than terms with a shorter maximum length when those pairs have substantially the same occurrence frequency; program code for only ranking the at least one identified acronym and synonym pair with the longer maximum length, such that only one of those pairs that had substantially the same occurrence frequency is ranked, wherein each of the acronym and synonym pairs are ranked relative to the plurality of ranked acronym and synonym pairs; and program code for displaying the ranked acronym and synonym pairs from among the plurality of ranked acronym and synonym pairs.
10. A computer program product embedded in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for identifying acronym and synonym pairs for a selected target corpus, comprising: program code for analyzing each sentence in a target corpus to identify possible acronym and synonym pairs; program code for determining an occurrence frequency of each identified possible acronym and synonym pair from among a plurality of possible acronym and synonym pairs; program code for determining a maximum possible length for each identified possible acronym and synonym pair; program code for receiving a user-selected relative weighting factor from a user for weighting an occurrence frequency relative to a maximum possible length; program code for scoring each identified possible acronym and synonym pair based on the user-selected weighting factor, occurrence frequency and maximum possible length, and wherein the program code for scoring of each identified possible acronym and synonym pair further includes program code for only scoring pairs with a longer maximum length higher than terms with a shorter maximum length when those pairs have substantially the same occurrence frequency; program code for determining that at least one of the identified acronym and synonym pairs includes a pair in which a longer maximum length higher than terms with a shorter maximum length when those pairs have substantially the same occurrence frequency; program code for only ranking the at least one identified acronym and synonym pair with the longer maximum length, such that only one of those pairs that had substantially the same occurrence frequency is ranked, wherein each of the acronym and synonym pairs are ranked relative to the plurality of ranked acronym and synonym pairs; and program code for displaying the ranked acronym and synonym pairs from among the plurality of ranked acronym and synonym pairs. 11. A computer program product according to claim 10 , wherein: program code for ranking each identified possible acronym and synonym pair includes program code for ranking pairs with a longer maximum length higher than terms with a shorter maximum length when those pairs have substantially the same occurrence frequency.