Structured abbreviation expansion in context
Computation and Language
2021-10-05 v1
Abstract
Ad hoc abbreviations are commonly found in informal communication channels that favor shorter messages. We consider the task of reversing these abbreviations in context to recover normalized, expanded versions of abbreviated messages. The problem is related to, but distinct from, spelling correction, in that ad hoc abbreviations are intentional and may involve substantial differences from the original words. Ad hoc abbreviations are productively generated on-the-fly, so they cannot be resolved solely by dictionary lookup. We generate a large, open-source data set of ad hoc abbreviations. This data is used to study abbreviation strategies and to develop two strong baselines for abbreviation expansion
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.01140,
title = {Structured abbreviation expansion in context},
author = {Kyle Gorman and Christo Kirov and Brian Roark and Richard Sproat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01140},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2021