Abbreviation Expansion in Swedish Clinical Text : Using Distributional Semantic Models and Levenshtein Distance Normalization
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. This thesis presents a distribut...
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
2014
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226235 |