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The prevalence of ambiguous acronyms make scientific documents harder to understand for humans and machines alike, presenting a need for models that can automatically identify acronyms in text and disambiguate their meaning. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Nicholas Egan , John Bohannon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

This project addresses challenges posed by the widespread use of abbreviations and acronyms in digital texts. We propose a novel method that combines document preprocessing, regular expressions, and a large language model to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Izhar Ali , Million Haileyesus , Serhiy Hnatyshyn , Jan-Lucas Ott , Vasil Hnatyshin

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

Acronyms are abbreviated units of a phrase constructed by using initial components of the phrase in a text. Automatic extraction of acronyms from a text can help various Natural Language Processing tasks like machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Prashant Sharma , Hadeel Saadany , Leonardo Zilio , Diptesh Kanojia , Constantin Orăsan

Keeping track of scientific challenges, advances and emerging directions is a fundamental part of research. However, researchers face a flood of papers that hinders discovery of important knowledge. In biomedicine, this directly impacts…

The typical workflow for a professional translator to translate a document from its source language (SL) to a target language (TL) is not always focused on what many language models in natural language processing (NLP) do - predict the next…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Richard Yue , John E. Ortega , Kenneth Ward Church

In the medical domain, identifying and expanding abbreviations in clinical texts is a vital task for both better human and machine understanding. It is a challenging task because many abbreviations are ambiguous especially for intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yue Liu , Tao Ge , Kusum S. Mathews , Heng Ji , Deborah L. McGuinness

Large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity in various fields for their exceptional capability of generating human-like text. Their potential misuse has raised social concerns about plagiarism in academic contexts. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Luoxuan Weng , Minfeng Zhu , Kam Kwai Wong , Shi Liu , Jiashun Sun , Hang Zhu , Dongming Han , Wei Chen

Each year, countless hours of productive research time is spent brainstorming creative acronyms for surveys, simulations, codes, and conferences. We present ACRONYM, a command-line program developed specifically to assist astronomers in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-01 B. A Cook

The task of scholar name disambiguation is crucial in various real-world scenarios, including bibliometric-based candidate evaluation for awards, application material anti-fraud measures, and more. Despite significant advancements, current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Renyu Zhao , Yunxin Chen

Name disambiguation -- a fundamental problem in online academic systems -- is now facing greater challenges with the increasing growth of research papers. For example, on AMiner, an online academic search platform, about 10% of names own…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Fanjin Zhang , Tianyi Han , Yuqing Cheng , Xiaoyan Li , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang
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