?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+Supervised+Learning+Approach+to+Acronym+Identification&rft.creator=Nadeau%2C+David&rft.creator=Turney%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Language&rft.description=This+paper+addresses+the+task+of+finding+acronym-definition+pairs+in+text.+Most+of+the+previous+work+on+the+topic+is+about+systems+that+involve+manually+generated+rules+or+regular+expressions.+In+this+paper%2C+we+present+a%0Asupervised+learning+approach+to+the+acronym+identification+task.+Our+approach+reduces+the+search+space+of+the+supervised+learning+system+by+putting+some+weak+constraints+on+the+kinds+of+acronym-definition+pairs+that+can+be+identified.+We+obtain+results+comparable+to+hand-crafted+systems+that+use+stronger+constraints.+We+describe+our+method+for+reducing+the+search+space%2C+the+features%0Aused+by+our+supervised+learning+system%2C+and+our+experiments+with+various+learning+schemes.&rft.publisher=Springer&rft.contributor=K%C3%A9gl%2C+Bal%C3%A1zs&rft.contributor=Lapalme%2C+Guy&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4399%2F1%2FNRC-48078.pdf&rft.identifier=++Nadeau%2C+David+and+Turney%2C+Peter++(2005)+A+Supervised+Learning+Approach+to+Acronym+Identification.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4399%2F