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MOTIVATION Due to recent interest in the use of textual material to augment traditional experiments it has become necessary to automatically cluster, classify and filter natural language information. RESULTS The Simple and Robust Abbreviation Dictionary (SaRAD) provides an easy to implement, high performance tool for the construction of a biomedical symbol dictionary. The algorithms, applied ...

Erratum Unfortunately the original version of this article [1] contained a mistake. During peer-review, the abbreviation of the questionnaire was changed from ‘PCSEQ’ to ‘SEPCQ’ throughout the article. However, this update was not implemented in Fig. 1, which displays the incorrect abbreviation and is inconsistent with the rest of the article. The figure caption was not affected by this mistake...

Recently, not only the person and things, but also words are imported by internationalization and informationization, and the scene using the loanword is increasing. However, these expressions are hard to understand for a child and the elderly person. Therefore, when such an expression is used for sentences, it might be hindered to understand entire sentences. Moreover, because an original word...

Abbreviations are commonly found instances of synonymy in Biomedical journal papers. Information retrieval systems that index paragraphs rather than full-text articles are more susceptible to term variation of this kind, since abbreviations are typically only defined once at the beginning of the text. One solution to this problem is to expand the user query automatically with all possible abbre...

Prepublished online April 6, 2006; Amadori Gattei, Paolo de Fabritiis, Maria Cantonetti, Francesco Lo Coco, Domenico Del Principe and Sergio Ottaviani, Paola Panetta, Antonio Bruno, Riccardo Bomben, Giovanna Suppo, Massimo Degan, Valter Licia Antonella Zucchetto, Rita Marini, Pasquale Niscola, Maria Antonietta Irno Consalvo, Carla Mazzone, Maria Ilaria Del Principe, Giovanni Del Poeta, Francesc...

We present an algorithm for extracting abbreviation definitions from biomedical text. Our approach is based on an alignment HMM, matching abbreviations and their definitions. We report 98% precision and 93% recall on a standard data set, and 95% precision and 91% recall on an additional test set. Our results show an improvement over previously reported methods and our model has several advantag...

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