AcroMine 'Paper' Corpus

This evaluation corpus employs 50 short forms chosen from those discussed in papers on acronym recognition. The criterion focuses on system performance for acronyms chosen by the previous studies as examples. The corpus includes 3,362 short/long-form pairs extracted manually from the 32,910 sentences that contain the target 657 short form.

A bio-informatician colleague extracted long forms from the contextual sentences. As this was a time consuming task, we developed a tool where the expert can browse the list of contextual sentences efficiently. If the expert chooses a term as a long form, the tool eliminates the sentences with that long form automatically and reduces the amount of unexamined sentences.

The criteria for including long forms in the evaluation corpus were established:

Expressions satisfying the above criteria were accepted regardless of their popularity or relevance because it is hard for a human subject to determine which long forms are appropriate for the inclusion to a dictionary.

To be released.

The following table shows the complete list of short/long forms in this corpus. A short form in this corpus may have no distinct long-form because: all long-forms for a short form occur less than twice; or no long form should be extracted since the short form is not a valid acronym.