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In this paper, we introduce a knowledge-based method to disambiguate biomedical acronyms using second-order co-occurrence vectors. We create these vectors using information about a long-form obtained from the Unified Medical Language System and Medline. We evaluate this method on a dataset of 18 acronyms found in biomedical text. Our method achieves an overall accuracy of 89%. The results show ...

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Acronyms are present in usually all documents to express information that is repetitive and well known. But acronyms can be ambiguous because there can be many expansions of the same acronym. In this paper, we propose a general system for acronym expansion that can work on any acronym given some context information it is used in. We present methods for retrieving all the possible expansions of ...

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