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Abbreviation and Acronym Disambiguation in Clinical Discourse

Use of abbreviations and acronyms is pervasive in clinical reports despite many efforts to limit the use of ambiguous and unsanctioned abbreviations and acronyms. Due to the fact that many abbreviations and acronyms are ambiguous with respect to their sense, complete and accurate text analysis is impossible without identification of the sense that was intended for a given abbreviation or acrony...

Clinical Acronym/Abbreviation Normalization using a Hybrid Approach

A unique characteristic of clinical text is the pervasive use of acronyms and abbreviations, which are often ambiguous. The ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab organized three shared tasks on clinical natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) in 2013 and one of them was to normalize acronyms/abbreviations to UMLS concept unique identifiers (CUIs). This paper describes a hyb...

Chinese Abbreviation Identification Using Abbreviation-Template

Chinese abbreviations are frequently used without being defined, which has brought much difficulty into NLP. In this study, the definition-independent abbreviation identification problem is proposed and resolved as a classification task in which abbreviation candidates are classified as either ‘abbreviation’ or ‘non-abbreviation’ according to the posterior probability. To meet our aim of identi...

Clinical Abbreviation Disambiguation Using Neural Word Embeddings

This study examined the use of neural word embeddings for clinical abbreviation disambiguation, a special case of word sense disambiguation (WSD). We investigated three different methods for deriving word embeddings from a large unlabeled clinical corpus: one existing method called Surrounding based embedding feature (SBE), and two newly developed methods: Left-Right surrounding based embedding...

Abbreviation Generation for Japanese Multi-Word Expressions