Statistical-Based Abbreviation Expansion

The work presented in this paper deals with the text normalization for highly inflectional languages. This paper is focused on abbreviation expansion and likewise on numerals normalization. Our text normalization system does not use any explicit parser or part-of-speech tagger and thus it can be called lightly supervised. The standard rule-based text normalization method is compared with the proposed statistical-based one in the task of expansion of Czech abbreviations.