17.868, Qs: Research on Acronyms

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Subject: 17.868, Qs: Research on Acronyms

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Date: 20-Mar-2006
From: Jean-Sébastien Tisserand < jseb23 at hotmail.com >
Subject: Research on Acronyms 

	
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:41:01
From: Jean-Sébastien Tisserand < jseb23 at hotmail.com >
Subject: Research on Acronyms 
 


Dear All,

I'm a PhD student currently working on acronyms and initialisms, and more
particularly their automatic recognition in texts. The first part of my
work deals with anterior studies and research on what has already been done
(state-of-the-art). Would you mind telling me if some research (both
important or minor) has already been done in that subject? 

Then I have to implement a computational means to extract acronyms from
text; can any of you tell me what computer language is best suited for this
work: Prolog, Perl??

Many thanks in advance. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Morphology




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