Creating an Online Dictionary of Abbreviations from MEDLINE
AUTOR(ES)
Chang, Jeffrey T.
FONTE
American Medical Informatics Association
RESUMO
Objective. The growth of the biomedical literature presents special challenges for both human readers and automatic algorithms. One such challenge derives from the common and uncontrolled use of abbreviations in the literature. Each additional abbreviation increases the effective size of the vocabulary for a field. Therefore, to create an automatically generated and maintained lexicon of abbreviations, we have developed an algorithm to match abbreviations in text with their expansions.
