Abbreviated appelatives as independent modifications of abbreviations

Language Independent Acquisition of Abbreviations

This paper addresses automatic extraction of abbreviations (encompassing acronyms and initialisms) and corresponding longform expansions from plain unstructured text. We create and are going to release a multilingual resource for abbreviations and their corresponding expansions, built automatically by exploiting Wikipedia redirect and disambiguation pages, that can be used as a benchmark for ev...

Abbreviations.

Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee Tenth meeting Report Annex 3 Annex 3 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF THE JOINT IMPLEMENTATION SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE IN 2008 Mo Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Mo Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Mo Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Mo Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Mo Tue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17...

Ambiguous abbreviations: an audit of abbreviations in paediatric note keeping.

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency, nature and understanding of abbreviations in medical records. DESIGN Audit of abbreviation use and meaning in paediatric handover sheets and medical notes compared to two standards, the Trust Intranet Medical Dictionary (TID) and Mosby's Medical Dictionary (MMD). A selection of abbreviations was shown to healthcare professionals to examine interpretation of ...

List of Abbreviations

Disambiguation of Biomedical Abbreviations

Abbreviations are common in biomedical documents and many are ambiguous in the sense that they have several potential expansions. Identifying the correct expansion is necessary for language understanding and important for applications such as document retrieval. Identifying the correct expansion can be viewed as a Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) problem. A WSD system that uses a variety of know...