{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/acronym-disambiguation-a-domain-independent","title":"Acronym Disambiguation: A Domain Independent Approach","arxiv_id":"1711.09271","date":"2017-11-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Aditya Thakker","Suhail Barot","Sudhir Bagul"],"abstract":"Acronyms are omnipresent. They usually express information that is repetitive\nand well known. But acronyms can also be ambiguous because there can be\nmultiple expansions for the same acronym. In this paper, we propose a general\nsystem for acronym disambiguation that can work on any acronym given some\ncontext information. We present methods for retrieving all the possible\nexpansions of an acronym from Wikipedia and AcronymsFinder.com. We propose to\nuse these expansions to collect all possible contexts in which these acronyms\nare used and then score them using a paragraph embedding technique called\nDoc2Vec. This method collectively led to achieving an accuracy of 90.9% in\nselecting the correct expansion for given acronym, on a dataset we scraped from\nWikipedia with 707 distinct acronyms and 14,876 disambiguations.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09271v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.09271v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"acronym-disambiguation-a-domain-independent","repo_url":"https://github.com/adityathakker/AcronymExpansion","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}