1. A Supervised Learning Approach to Acronym Identification
- Author
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Nadeau, David, Turney, Peter, Kégl, Balázs, and Lapalme, Guy
- Subjects
Computer Science: Language ,Language - Abstract
This paper addresses the task of finding acronym-definition pairs in text. Most of the previous work on the topic is about systems that involve manually generated rules or regular expressions. In this paper, we present a supervised learning approach to the acronym identification task. Our approach reduces the search space of the supervised learning system by putting some weak constraints on the kinds of acronym-definition pairs that can be identified. We obtain results comparable to hand-crafted systems that use stronger constraints. We describe our method for reducing the search space, the features used by our supervised learning system, and our experiments with various learning schemes.
- Published
- 2005