MOTIVATION Acronyms result from a highly productive type of term variation and trigger the need for an acronym dictionary to establish associations between acronyms and their expanded forms. RESULTS We propose a novel method for recognizing acronym definitions in a text collection. Assuming a word sequence co-occurring frequently with a parenthetical expression to be a potential expanded form...

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 ...

The explosion of biomedical literature and with it the -uncontrolledcreation of abbreviations presents some special challenges for both human readers and computer applications. We developed an annotated corpus of Dutch medical text, and experimented with two approaches to abbreviation detection and resolution. Our corpus is composed of abstracts from two medical journals from the Low Countries ...

Languages across the world exhibit Zipf’s law of abbreviation, namely more frequent words tend to be shorter. The generalized version of the law an inverse relationship between the frequency of a unit and its magnitude holds also for the behaviors of other species and the genetic code. The apparent universality of this pattern in human language and its ubiquity in other domains calls for a theo...

BACKGROUND Terminologies that account for variation in language use by linking synonyms and abbreviations to their corresponding concept are important enablers of high-quality information extraction from medical texts. Due to the use of specialized sub-languages in the medical domain, manual construction of semantic resources that accurately reflect language use is both costly and challenging, ...

Maritime search and rescue (MSRIn the maritime publications, the abbreviation for search and rescue is also SAR. Here we use MSR to distinguish it from the abbreviation for Synthetic Aperture Radar.) became an enormous task with the vast growth of marine transportation and other marine activities. In the year of 2006, the MSR centers and maritime authorities in China organized and coordinated 1...

From the Division of Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Longwood Medical Area, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Address reprint requests to: Margot S. Kruskall, MD, Division of Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Yamins 309, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Bro...

The wide use of abbreviations in modern texts poses interesting challenges and opportunities in the field of NLP. In addition to their dynamic nature, abbreviations are highly polysemous with respect to regular words. Technologies that exhibit some level of language understanding may be adversely impacted by the presence of abbreviations. This paper addresses two related problems: (1) expansion...

The article shows that the main methods of word formation in British press are combinations, telescoping, compounding, affixation, abbreviation, contraction, expansion meaning a word, and conversion. author analyzed 159 neologisms from 2019-2023. It was determined cover all spheres human life: everyday life, work, architecture, ecology, leisure, entertainment, special role СOVID-19 press, which...

Abstract An interesting point in studying the oscillatory behavior of solutions delay differential equations is abbreviation conditions that ensure oscillation all solutions, especially when noncanonical case. Therefore, this study aims to reduce fourth-order with a operator. Moreover, approach used gives more accurate results applied some special cases, as we explained examples.