On a Japanese abbreviation "Magune"

A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Abbreviation Extraction

This paper addresses the difficulties in recognizing Japanese abbreviations through the use of previous approaches, examining actual usages of parenthetical expressions in newspaper articles. In order to bridge the gap between Japanese abbreviations and their full forms, we present a discriminative approach to abbreviation recognition. More specifically, we formalize the abbreviation recognitio...

Abbreviation Generation for Japanese Multi-Word Expressions

Japanese Abbreviation Expansion with Query and Clickthrough Logs

A novel reranking method has been developed to refine web search queries. A label propagation algorithm was applied on a clickthrough graph, and the candidates were reranked using a query language model. Our method first enumerates query candidates with common landing pages with regard to the given query to create a clickthrough graph. Second, it calculates the likelihood of the candidates, usi...

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...

On Abbreviation: Dialogue in Early Life

The development process of the mother-infant communication system is described as historical systems of relationships allowing for the emergence of self-organization patterns of this system. Three organizational patterns are proposed: establishment, extension and abbreviation. Each corresponds to typical manners of dialoguing. I will concentrate on the analysis of abbreviation, with the aim of ...