Acronym Confusion

Wireless Dictionary Acronym/Term Acronym Definition Explanation

Efficient Acronym-Expansion Matching for Automatic Acronym Acquisition

Acronyms are a very dynamic area of many languages. An efficient dynamic programming algorithm for matching acronyms with their expansions by maximizing a linguistic plausibility score is presented and is found to be very accurate, to =99.6% on a corpus of acronym definitions. Given its high precision, the algorithm can be used as a component in new or existing automatic acronym acquisition sys...

Automatic Acronym Identification and the Creation of an Acronym Database

Over the past few decades there has been an explosion in the number on online technical documents, news stories and other formal documents. Associated with this large increase in documents has come a large increase in the number of acronyms defined. As a result of this there is now a need to create systems capable of automatically identifying acronyms and their meanings in order to help improve...

Automatic Acronym Recognition

This paper deals with the problem of recognizing and extracting acronymdefinition pairs in Swedish medical texts. This project applies a rule-based method to solve the acronym recognition task and compares and evaluates the results of different machine learning algorithms on the same task. The method proposed is based on the approach that acronym-definition pairs follow a set of patterns and ot...

SARS: just another viral acronym?

Recent observations and experimental evidence have purported that a virus causes SARS, but such viruses have been isolated in only less than half of SARS patients in some studies and virologist Vincent Plummer of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory found that indeed 1 in 5 perfectly healthy Canadians with a history of recent travel to Asia had the virus. Therefore SARS microbiologic ori...