Recognizing Acronyms and their Definitions (1999)
by
Kazem Taghva
,
Jeff Gilbreth
| Venue: | ISRI (Information Science Research Institute) UNLV |
| Citations: | 35 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Taghva99recognizingacronyms,
author = {Kazem Taghva and Jeff Gilbreth},
title = {Recognizing Acronyms and their Definitions},
journal = {ISRI (Information Science Research Institute) UNLV},
year = {1999},
volume = {1},
pages = {191--198}
}
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Abstract
Abstract This paper introduces an automatic method for finding acronyms and their definitions in free text. The method is based on an inexact pattern matching algorithm applied to text surrounding the possible acronym. Evaluation shows both high recall and precision for a set of documents randomly selected from a larger set of full text documents. \Lambda
