Automatic expansion of abbreviations by using context and character information

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-45

  Terada, Akira ^a   Tokunaga, Takenobu ^a   Tanaka, Hozumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abbreviation expansion; Context information; Unknown words

Indexed keywords

GLOSSARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

ABBREVIATIONS; CONTEXT INFORMATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0345358542     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00080-8     Document Type: Article

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