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Acronyms are the short forms of longer phrases and they are frequently used in writing, especially scholarly writing, to save space and facilitate the communication of information. As such, every text understanding tool should be capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen , Walter Chang , Leo Anthony Celi

Acronyms are the short forms of phrases that facilitate conveying lengthy sentences in documents and serve as one of the mainstays of writing. Due to their importance, identifying acronyms and corresponding phrases (i.e., acronym…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Quan Hung Tran , Thien Huu Nguyen

Acronym disambiguation (AD) task aims to find the correct expansions of an ambiguous ancronym in a given sentence. Although it is convenient to use acronyms, sometimes they could be difficult to understand. Identifying the appropriate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Chunguang Pan , Bingyan Song , Shengguang Wang , Zhipeng Luo

We present our systems submitted for the shared tasks of Acronym Identification (AI) and Acronym Disambiguation (AD) held under Workshop on SDU. We mainly experiment with BERT and SciBERT. In addition, we assess the effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Aadarsh Singh , Priyanshu Kumar

Acronyms and abbreviations are the short-form of longer phrases and they are ubiquitously employed in various types of writing. Despite their usefulness to save space in writing and reader's time in reading, they also provide challenges for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Walter Chang , Thien Huu Nguyen

Scientific documents often contain a large number of acronyms. Disambiguation of these acronyms will help researchers better understand the meaning of vocabulary in the documents. In the past, thanks to large amounts of data from English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yixuan Weng , Fei Xia , Bin Li , Xiusheng Huang , Shizhu He

Acronym disambiguation means finding the correct meaning of an ambiguous acronym from the dictionary in a given sentence, which is one of the key points for scientific document understanding (SDU@AAAI-22). Recently, many attempts have tried…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Bin Li , Fei Xia , Yixuan Weng , Xiusheng Huang , Bin Sun

Acronym identification focuses on finding the acronyms and the phrases that have been abbreviated, which is crucial for scientific document understanding tasks. However, the limited size of manually annotated datasets hinders further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Danqing Zhu , Wangli Lin , Yang Zhang , Qiwei Zhong , Guanxiong Zeng , Weilin Wu , Jiayu Tang

Acronym Disambiguation (AD) is crucial for natural language understanding on various sources, including biomedical reports, scientific papers, and search engine queries. However, existing acronym disambiguation benchmarks and tools are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Lihu Chen , Gaël Varoquaux , Fabian M. Suchanek

Abbreviations often have several distinct meanings, often making their use in text ambiguous. Expanding them to their intended meaning in context is important for Machine Reading tasks such as document search, recommendation and question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Manuel Ciosici , Tobias Sommer , Ira Assent

An obstacle to scientific document understanding is the extensive use of acronyms which are shortened forms of long technical phrases. Acronym disambiguation aims to find the correct meaning of an ambiguous acronym in a given text. Recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Qiwei Zhong , Guanxiong Zeng , Danqing Zhu , Yang Zhang , Wangli Lin , Ben Chen , Jiayu Tang

Entity disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

Acronym extraction is the task of identifying acronyms and their expanded forms in texts that is necessary for various NLP applications. Despite major progress for this task in recent years, one limitation of existing AE research is that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Nicole Meister , Seunghyun Yoon , Rajiv Jain , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

Acronym Disambiguation (AD) is a fundamental challenge in technical text processing, particularly in specialized sectors where high ambiguity complicates automated analysis. This paper addresses AD within the context of the TextMine'26…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 El Mokhtar Hribach , Oussama Mechhour , Mohammed Elmonstaser , Yassine El Boudouri , Othmane Kabal

Acronyms are omnipresent. They usually express information that is repetitive and well known. But acronyms can also be ambiguous because there can be multiple expansions for the same acronym. In this paper, we propose a general system for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Aditya Thakker , Suhail Barot , Sudhir Bagul

Assessing the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence systems requires knowledge from many different disciplines. These disciplines do not necessarily share concepts between them and might use words with different meanings, or even use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Dennis Vetter , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Magnus Westerlund , Roberto V. Zicari , Gemma Roig

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in natural language. Resolving ambiguous meanings is especially important in information retrieval tasks. While word embeddings carry semantic information, they fail to handle ambiguity well. Transformer models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Matthias Thurnbauer , Johannes Reisinger , Christoph Goller , Andreas Fischer

Recognizing entity synonyms from text has become a crucial task in many entity-leveraging applications. However, discovering entity synonyms from domain-specific text corpora (e.g., news articles, scientific papers) is rather challenging.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Meng Qu , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Distinguishing antonyms from synonyms is a key challenge for many NLP applications focused on the lexical-semantic relation extraction. Existing solutions relying on large-scale corpora yield low performance because of huge contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Muhammad Asif Ali , Yifang Sun , Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Wang , Xiang Zhao

Word sense disambiguation helps identifying the proper sense of ambiguous words in text. With large terminologies such as the UMLS Metathesaurus ambiguities appear and highly effective disambiguation methods are required. Supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Antonio Jimeno Yepes
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