Acronym expansion via hidden Markov models

Proceedings - ICSEng 2011: International Conference on Systems Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 120-125

  Taghva, Kazem ^a   Vyas, Lakshmi ^a  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Acronyms; Hidden Markov Models; HMM; Maximum Likelihood Estimation; MLE; supervised learning

Indexed keywords

ACRONYMS; HMM; RECALL AND PRECISION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODELS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 80055102388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEng.2011.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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