... forms asthe training/evaluation data.The evaluation metrics used in the abbreviationgeneration are exact-match accuracy (hereinafteraccuracy), including top-1 accuracy, top-2 accu-racy, and top-3 ... 2003;Adar, 2004; Ao and Takagi, 2005). For example,Schwartz and Hearst (2003) implemented a simplealgorithm that mapped all alpha-numerical lettersin an abbreviation to its expanded form, startingfrom ... var-ious methods by which to extract abbreviationdefinitions that appear in actual texts (Taghva and Gilbreth, 1999; Park and Byrd, 2001; Wren and Garner, 2002; Schwartz and Hearst, 2003;Adar,...