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An acronym is an abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a pronounceable word. Acronyms occur frequently throughout various documents, especially those of a technical nature, for example, research papers and patents. While these acronyms can enhance document readability, in a variety of fields, they have a negative effect on business intelligence. To resol...

____________________________________________________________________ Complex terminologies management – the case of acronyms Terminology management is still problematic, especially for complex constructions such as acronyms. In this paper, we propose a solution to connect several different terms with a single referent through using the concepts of pivot and prolexeme. These concepts allow for e...

A unique characteristic of clinical text is the pervasive use of acronyms and abbreviations, which are often ambiguous. The ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab organized three shared tasks on clinical natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) in 2013 and one of them was to normalize acronyms/abbreviations to UMLS concept unique identifiers (CUIs). This paper describes a hyb...