The ACRONYM Project: Discovering the textual thesaurus

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  • Antoinette Renouf
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The ACRONYM Project began in April 1994, funded by the British government and industry for three years. It is a collaborative project, its partners being the University of Liverpool, FT Info (the archiving branch of the Financial Times), and the Press Association (a news agency supplying news to the regional press). The project has as its objective the development of an automated system for identifying thesaural items in electronic text. ACRONYM is an acronym, standing for 'The Automatic Collocational Retrieval Of Nyms'.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009