This paper concerns the prediction of stress in Swedish three-letter acronyms. A segmental hypothesis is tested against an “establishedness” hypothesis suggested by Bruce (1993). Subjects were found to rely heavily on segmental cues for selection of stress pattern, especially for familiar acronyms. Establishedness, approximated as familiarity, did not have any impact on stress pattern selection.

Acronyms are a very dynamic area of many languages. An efficient dynamic programming algorithm for matching acronyms with their expansions by maximizing a linguistic plausibility score is presented and is found to be very accurate, to =99.6% on a corpus of acronym definitions. Given its high precision, the algorithm can be used as a component in new or existing automatic acronym acquisition sys...

A brief introduction to acronyms is given and motivation for extracting them in a digital library environment is discussed. A technique for extracting acronyms is given with an analysis of the results. The technique is found to have a low number of false negatives and a high number of false positives.

The present article is based on research focusing acronyms, including their forms, spelling and punctuation in English, also discussing various, often contradictory, or ambiguous definitions for so-called “minor” word-formation options. We try to argue a more lenient definition of abbreviations, initialisms alphabetisms, directing our attention towards certain technical features acronyms (upper...

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