Table 1 Acronym-type abbreviations and non-acronym-type abbreviations
From: MBA: a literature mining system for extracting biomedical abbreviations
abbreviations | |
|---|---|
acronym-type | (1)regular acronym-type abbreviations: each character in the abbreviation is contained in the definition (e.g., <DC, dendritic cell>) |
| Â | (2)some irregular acronym-type ones: only one character in the abbreviation is not contained in the definition (e.g., <CNS1, cyclophilin seven suppressor>) |
non-acronym-type | mainly several characters in the abbreviation are not contained in the definition (e.g., <Fas, CD95>, <5-HT, serotonin>, <Pax6, eyeless>) |