Acronym Expansion via Hidden Markov Models

Meeting name

21st International Conference on Systems Engineering

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Meeting location

Las Vegas, NV

Publication Date

7-16-2011

Abstract

In this paper, we report on design and implementation of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to extract acronyms and their expansions. We also report on the training of this HMM with Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) algorithm using a set of examples. Finally, we report on our testing using standard recall and precision. The HMM achieves a recall and precision of 98% and 92% respectively.

Keywords

Acronym expansion; Acronyms; Hidden Markov models; HMM; Maximum likelihood estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation algorithm; MLE; Pattern recognition systems; Supervised learning

Disciplines

Computer Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Software Engineering

Permissions

Acronym expansion; Acronyms; Hidden Markov models; HMM; Maximum likelihood estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation algorithm; MLE; Supervised learning

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