ii Contents Page Contents ii List of Tables v List of Figures vi List of Abbreviations/Acronyms vii 1. viii Abbreviations/Acronyms Cont.

Over the past few decades there has been an explosion in the number on online technical documents, news stories and other formal documents. Associated with this large increase in documents has come a large increase in the number of acronyms defined. As a result of this there is now a need to create systems capable of automatically identifying acronyms and their meanings in order to help improve...

We collected subjective frequency, age-of-acquisition, and imageability norms for 319 acronyms from French adults. Objective printed frequency, bigram frequency, and lengths in letters, phonemes, and syllables, as well as orthographic neighbors, were computed. The time taken to read acronyms aloud was also recorded. Correlational analyses indicated that the relations between the psycholinguisti...

OBJECTIVE To create a sense inventory of abbreviations and acronyms from clinical texts. METHODS The most frequently occurring abbreviations and acronyms from 352,267 dictated clinical notes were used to create a clinical sense inventory. Senses of each abbreviation and acronym were manually annotated from 500 random instances and lexically matched with long forms within the Unified Medical L...

AAMI American Association of Medical Instrumentation ACCP American College of Chest Physicians ACD-A Anticoagulant dextrose solution A ACE-I Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor(s) ADQI Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research AKD Acute kidney diseases and disorders AKI Acute kidney injury AKIN Acute Kidney Injury Network ANP Atrial natriuretic pepti...

Objective: Abbreviations and acronyms are widely used in the clinical documents. This paper describes using of a machine learner to automatically extract spans of abbreviations and acronyms from clinical notes and map them to the UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) CUI (Concept Unique Identifier). Tasks: A Conditional Random Field (CRF) machine learner was used to identify abbreviations and ...