OBJECTIVE To save time, healthcare providers frequently use abbreviations while authoring clinical documents. Nevertheless, abbreviations that authors deem unambiguous often confuse other readers, including clinicians, patients, and natural language processing (NLP) systems. Most current clinical NLP systems "post-process" notes long after clinicians enter them into electronic health record sys...

this study was designed to elucidate the effect of ascorbic acid on salivary total antioxidant capacity in smokers. in this single blind crossover clinical trial, the whole unstimulated saliva of 30 smokers, who were randomly divided into two groups, was collected. in the first phase after the saliva collection, one group of patients took 500 mg of vitamin c powder, for 3 weeks. then, saliva of...

Unknown words such as proper nouns, abbreviations, and acronyms are a major obstacle in text processing. Abbreviations, in particular, are difficult to read/process because they are often domain-specific. In this paper, we propose a method for automatic expansion of abbreviations by using context and character information. In previous studies dictionaries were used to search for abbreviation ex...

INTRODUCTION The abbreviation of perioperative fasting among candidates to elective surgery have been associated with shorter hospital stay and decreased postoperative complications. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review from randomized controlled trials to detect whether the abbreviation of fasting is beneficial to patients undergoing cancer surgery compared to traditional fasting protoco...

BACKGROUND One of the barriers for the effective use of computerized health-care related text is the ambiguity of abbreviations. To date, the task of disambiguating abbreviations has been treated as a classification task based on surrounding words. Application of this framework for languages that have no word boundaries requires pre-processing to segment a sentence into separate word sequences....

AbstractThis study was conducted to describe the type of abbreviation, origin and explain process abbreviation in Jambi Ekspres Online daily. The object this research is all words contained daily rubric Online. Data collection done by documentation technique. Based on results study, it can be concluded that there are five types abbreviations, namely acronyms, contractions, fragments, letter sym...

The article is devoted to the problem of using abbreviations relevant for professional terminology. After studying various definitions concept “abbreviation” and authors give examples usage these techniques in legal English.
 Aim study. This study analysis English terms.
 Materials methods. research material was terminology language. methods scientific are method theoretical analysis,...

Word prediction is one of the most commonly used systems to help to write people with physical and/or linguistic disabilities. In the newest systems, word prediction is complemented with other strategies to improve its performance, such as abbreviation expansion or phrase prediction. In this paper, a hybrid system with prediction of words and expansions is presented. Expansion prediction consis...