Method and system for building an abbreviation dictionary

Details Method and system for building an abbreviation dictionary Method and system for building an abbreviation dictionary

2006-11-14

2006-11-14

Corrielus, Jean M. (Department: 2162)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000, C715S252000, C704S209000, C704S265000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07136876

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for building an abbreviation dictionary involves searching through a set of source documents. The abbreviations having likely definitions are identified and the definitions extracted from the document. The definitions having identical associated abbreviations are grouped together. The definition groups are each arranged into clusters based on an n-gram or other combinatorial method to determine similar definition. Further disambiguation is provided by looking at similarity between clusters using an annotation associated with the source documents from which the definitions were extracted.

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