A Chinese Dataset with Negative Full Forms for General Abbreviation Prediction (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a common phenomenon across languages is abbreviation, but it's not always possible to predict it accurately. |
| Approach: | They build a dataset for general Chinese abbreviation prediction using a negative full form . they find that abbrevation prediction can improve the performance of abbreviation recognition . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset evaluates models on abbreviation prediction in Chinese . it shows that abbrevation prediction improves performance in language processing tasks . |
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