Adobe Inc.
MACHINE LEARNING BASED ABBREVIATION EXPANSION

Abstract:

Techniques are described herein for determining a long-form of an abbreviation using a machine learning based approach that takes into consideration both sequential context and structural context, where the long-form corresponds to a meaning of the abbreviation as used in a sequence of words that form a sentence. In some embodiments, word representations are generated for different words in the sequence of words, and a combined representation is generated for the abbreviation based on a word representation corresponding to the abbreviation, a sequential context representation, and a structural context representation. The sequential context representation can be generated based on word representations for words positioned near the abbreviation. The structural context representation can be generated based on word representations for words that are syntactically related to the abbreviation. The combined representation can be input to a classification neural network trained to output a label representing the long-form of the abbreviation.