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A Linguistic Approach to Extracting Acronym Expansions from Text

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We propose a linguistically aided approach for the extraction of acronyms from text, with implications at the discourse, lexicon, morphologic and phonologic levels. A system implemented using this approach achieves excellent performance ($f=95.22$%) on a limited corpus. Our work indicates the adequacy of linguistic methods for acronym discovery.

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  1. Department of Computing Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Manuel Zahariev

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Zahariev, M. A Linguistic Approach to Extracting Acronym Expansions from Text. Know. Inf. Sys. 6, 366–373 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-003-0105-x

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