Biomedical Abbreviation Recognition and Resolution by PROSA-MED
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چکیده
The amount of abbreviations used in biomedical literature increases constantly. Despite the existence of acronym dictionaries, it is not viable to keep them updated with new creations. Thus, in the processing of biomedical texts, discovering and disambiguating acronyms and their expanded forms are essential aspects and this is the objective proposed by BARR task at IberEval 2017 Workshop. This paper presents our participation in this task. We propose five systems that deal with the problem in different ways. Three of the systems are atomic approaches, while two of them are combinations of the atomic systems. One of the systems clearly outperforms the others, both in the detection of entities (F-score of 0.749 in the test set) as well as identifying relations between short-long forms (F-score of 0.697 in the test set).
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