28 - Abbreviation Finder
Abbreviations are an efficient way of writing, but it lowers text comprehension. To solve this, identify the long-form to enrich the short-form.
An abbreviation is a way to write a word not using the complete spelling. Abbreviations are an efficient way to write text, but it lowers text comprehension and increases ambiguity. Acronyms are a specialized form of abbreviations, usually using the first letters of each word in a multi-word phrase.
Identifying abbreviations often depends on detecting the simple template Long-Form (Short-Form). After identification a consensus view should be reached on all ambiguous long forms. Distinctions should be made between different long forms with the same semantic meaning versus long forms of different concepts.
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