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1. 1. Abbreviation Expansion in Swedish Clinical Text : Using Distributional Semantic Models and Levenshtein Distance Normalization

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Lisa Tengstrand; [2014]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In the medical domain, especially in clinical texts, non-standard abbreviations are prevalent, which impairs readability for patients. To ease the understanding of the physicians' notes, abbreviations need to be identified and expanded into their original forms. READ MORE

3. 2. A Random Indexing Approach to Unsupervised Selectional Preference Induction

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för datorlingvistik

   Author : Hillevi Hägglöf; Lisa Tengstrand; [2011]
   Keywords : Selectional preference induction; selectional preferences; word space model; Random Indexing; syntagma; distributional hypothesis;

   Abstract : A selectional preference is the relation between a head-word and plausible arguments of that head-word. Estimation of the association feature between these words is important to natural language processing applications such as Word Sense Disambiguation. READ MORE