Acrophile: an automated acronym extractor and server

We implemented a web server for acronym and abbreviation lookup, containing a collection of acronyms and their expansions gathered from a large number of web pages by a heuristic extraction process. Several different extraction algorithms were evaluated and compared. The corpus resulting from the best algorithm is comparable to a highquality hand-crafted site, but has the potential to be much more inclusive as data from more web pages are processed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: DL
• Authors: Leah S. Larkey, Paul Ogilvie, M. Andrew Price, Brenden Tamilio
• Keywords: Abbreviation Lookup, Digital Library, DL 2000, Heuristic Extraction Process, Web Pages