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Acronyms – Computer programs; Electronic information resource searching; Hidden Markov models; Markov processes

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Finding Acronyms And Their Definitions Using Hmm, Lakshmi Vyas May 2011

Finding Acronyms And Their Definitions Using Hmm, Lakshmi Vyas

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In this thesis, 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.