What's in a name? Word inflation, punctuation, abbreviation and cloud formation

Whats in a Country Name - Twitter Hashtag Analysis of #singapore

Twitter as a micro-blogging platform rose to instant fame mainly due to its minimalist features that allow seamless communication between users. As the conversations grew thick and faster, a placeholder feature called as Hashtags became important as it captured the themes behind the tweets. Prior studies have investigated the conversation dynamics, interplay with other media platforms and commu...

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

simulation and experimental studies for prediction mineral scale formation in oil field during mixing of injection and formation water

abstract: mineral scaling in oil and gas production equipment is one of the most important problem that occurs while water injection and it has been recognized to be a major operational problem. the incompatibility between injected and formation waters may result in inorganic scale precipitation in the equipment and reservoir and then reduction of oil production rate and water injection rate. ...

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