Recommender systems improve access to relevant products and information by making
personalized suggestions based on previous examples of a user's likes and dislikes. Most …

The volume of biomedical text is growing at a fast rate, creating challenges for humans and
computer systems alike. One of these challenges arises from the frequent use of novel …

How to Build a Digital Library reviews knowledge and tools to construct and maintain a
digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. A resource for individuals, agencies, and …

Objective: The growth of the biomedical literature presents special challenges for both
human readers and automatic algorithms. One such challenge derives from the common …

Acronyms are widely used in biomedical and other technical texts. Understanding their
meaning constitutes an important problem in the automatic extraction and mining of …

We implemented a web server for acronym and abbreviation lookup, containing a collection
of acronyms and their expansions gathered from a large number of web pages by a heuristic …

An acronym expansion system of the present invention receives electronic documents and
extracts acronyms and their corresponding expansions. A part-of-speech tagger …

Motivation: Due to recent interest in the use of textual material to augment traditional
experiments it has become necessary to automatically cluster, classify and filter natural …

A method and apparatus for building an abbreviation dictionary involves searching through
a set of source documents. The abbreviations having likely definitions are identified and the …

Naturally, digital library systems focus principally on the reader: th e consumer of the
material that constitutes the library. In contrast, this paper describes an interface that makes …