Acronyms and abbreviations.

Translation of Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations (AIA) in Persian Political and Sport Journalistic Texts

The different writing systems of English and Persian makes translation of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations challenging. This study aimed at finding which strategies were applied most frequently in translating acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations from English to Persian especially in journalistic texts. The study was done based n Descriptive Translation Study of Toury and strategies pr...

The Caribbean Music Industry Database (CMID), 2000

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Acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

Using MEDLINE as a knowledge source for disambiguating abbreviations and acronyms in full-text biomedical journal articles

Biomedical abbreviations and acronyms are widely used in biomedical literature. Since many of them represent important content in biomedical literature, information retrieval and extraction benefits from identifying the meanings of those terms. On the other hand, many abbreviations and acronyms are ambiguous, it would be important to map them to their full forms, which ultimately represent the ...

Experimental study of vulnerabilities in a web application

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A sense inventory for clinical abbreviations and acronyms created using clinical notes and medical dictionary resources

OBJECTIVE To create a sense inventory of abbreviations and acronyms from clinical texts. METHODS The most frequently occurring abbreviations and acronyms from 352,267 dictated clinical notes were used to create a clinical sense inventory. Senses of each abbreviation and acronym were manually annotated from 500 random instances and lexically matched with long forms within the Unified Medical L...