Many abbreviations are used in the literature especially in the life sciences, and polysemous
abbreviations appear frequently, making it difficult to read and understand scientific papers …

Context and motivation: Providing precise definitions of all project specific terms is a crucial
task in requirements engineering. In order to support the glossary building process, many …

Context: Providing precise definitions of all project specific terms is a crucial task in
requirements engineering. In order to support the glossary building process, many previous …

Clustering is one of the main pattern recognition techniques. This technique consists in
organizing the elements into groups (clusters) taking into consideration some metric that …

Abbreviations are short forms of phrases that aid in the communication of long sentences in
texts and are an essential part of the writing process. Abbreviations save a lot of time and …

This paper addresses automatic extraction of abbreviations (encompassing acronyms and
initialisms) and corresponding long-form expansions from plain unstructured text. We create …

Background: To parse free text medical notes into structured data such as disease names,
drugs, procedures, and other important medical information first, it is necessary to detect …

The present article describes a robust approach for abbreviating terms. First, in order to
incorporate non-local information into abbreviation generation tasks, we present both …

Electronic medical records (EMR) are the central point of data capture for patient care. EMR
can be used for both primary and secondary use. Primary use is for delivering health care to …

Life science researchers and health care professionals rely heavily on biomedical literature
databases such as MEDLINE to access information essential for research, health care …