In a generation device, a term determiner, for reference terms and a similar meaning term that has similar meaning to any of the reference terms, determines if each of the reference terms and the similar meaning term are both included in a document data group. An extractor extracts a reference term and the similar meaning term of the reference term that were both determined to be included in the document data group. A priority determiner determines an output priority to the extracted similar meaning term on the basis of appearance of at least either of the similar meaning term and the reference term in the document data group. And a list generator generates a the similar meaning term list in such a way that the extracted reference term, the similar meaning term of the extracted reference term, and the output priority are associated with one another.
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