Work

Structured abbreviation expansion in context

Year: 2021

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Ad hoc abbreviations are commonly found in informal communication channels that favor shorter messages.We consider the task of reversing these abbreviations in context to recover normalized, expanded versions of abbreviated messages.The problem is related to, but distinct from, spelling correction, in that ad hoc abbreviations are intentional and may involve substantial differences from the original words.Ad hoc abbreviations are productively generated on-the-fly, so they cannot be resolved solely by dictionary lookup.We generate a large, open-source data set of ad hoc abbreviations.This data is used to study abbreviation strategies and to develop two strong baselines for abbreviation expansion.

Source: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP (Findings of EMNLP)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.85

Authors: Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat

Institutions: Google (United States), City University of New York

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W3203557369

FWCI: 0.693

Cites: 37

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10