Heuristics for identification of acronym-definition patterns within text: Towards an automated construction of comprehensive acronym-definition dictionaries

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 426-434

  Wren, J D ^a   Garner, Harold ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abbreviations; Acronyms; Ambiguous acronyms; Information extraction; Information retrieval; Online reference; Polynyms

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036453949     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634373     Document Type: Article

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