A statistical approach to machine translation
Computational Linguistics
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A noisy-channel model for document compression
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A supervised learning approach to acronym identification
AI'05 Proceedings of the 18th Canadian Society conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
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We present a new approach to detect abbreviations given a root expression. The method is based on a statistical model combining two internal models: a generation and a verification model. The statistical model accounts for both the validity of abbreviations as a character sequence generated from a root (as learnt from the collection of abbreviation-root pairs) and their social validity, indicating how they are really used in the world (as obtained from a web search engine). The experimental results showed that our method outperforms traditional template-based methods. Specifically, using co-occurrence in the verification model yielded the best performance in our method.