Acronym-Expansion Disambiguation for Intelligent Processing of Enterprise Information

نویسندگان

  • Myunggwon Hwang
  • Do-Heon Jeong
  • Jinhyung Kim
  • Sa-Kwang Song
  • Hanmin Jung
  • Mazhar Sajjad
چکیده

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 resolve this problem, we propose a method of acronym-expansion disambiguation to collect high-quality enterprise information. In experimental evaluations, we demonstrate its efficiency through the use of objective comparisons.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computing and Informatics

دوره 33  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014