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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 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

Linking concepts and named entities to knowledge bases has become a crucial Natural Language Understanding task. In this respect, recent works have shown the key advantage of exploiting textual definitions in various Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-22 José Camacho Collados , Claudio Delli Bovi , Alessandro Raganato , Roberto Navigli

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

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we present a method to automatically build large labeled datasets for the author ambiguity problem in the academic world by leveraging the authoritative academic resources, ORCID and DOI. Using the method, we built LAGOS-AND,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Li Zhang , Wei Lu , Jinqing Yang

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative solutions across many domains, but healthcare integration is hindered by strict data privacy constraints. Clinical narratives are dense with ambiguous acronyms, misinterpretation these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Manjushree B. Aithal , Ph. D. , Alexander Kotz , James Mitchell , Ph. D

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

Automatic ICD coding, the task of assigning disease and procedure codes to electronic medical records, is crucial for clinical documentation and billing. While existing methods primarily enhance model understanding of code hierarchies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tuan-Dung Le , Shohreh Haddadan , Thanh Q. Thieu

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

The detection and extraction of abbreviations from unstructured texts can help to improve the performance of Natural Language Processing tasks, such as machine translation and information retrieval. However, in terms of publicly available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Leonardo Zilio , Hadeel Saadany , Prashant Sharma , Diptesh Kanojia , Constantin Orăsan

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

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

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
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