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METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARTUS FOR SELECTING AN ACRONYM EXPANSION

  • US 20130110500A1
  • Filed: 04/29/2010
  • Published: 05/02/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of selecting an expansion for an acronym in a document of a set of linked documents, the method comprising:

  • obtaining for each occurrence of the acronym in the set of linked documents one or more possible acronym expansions and an associated probability that the one or more possible acronym expansions is the correct acronym expansion;

    identifying a sub-set of documents from the set of linked documents in which the acronym occurs; and

    recalculating the associated probabilities for a first occurrence of an acronym in the sub-set of documents based, in part, on the associated probabilities of other occurrences of the acronym in the sub-set of documents and the distance between the first occurrence and the other occurrences.

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