Table 2 Construct the Candidate Definition List CDL>

1: Initiate an empty candidate definition list CDL;

2: Num = the number of words from the beginning of the sentence which contains the abbreviation to the left parenthesis;

3: if (Num < Max.|DEF|) {

SearchSpaceString = the string from the beginning of the sentence to the left parenthesis;

}

else {

SearchSpaceString = the string that contains Max.|DEF| words before the left parenthesis;

}

4: WordNum = min (Num, Max.|DEF|);

5: for (N = 0; N < WordNum; N++) {

CandidateDef = SearchSpaceString with the leftmost N words deleted;

insert CandidateDef into CDL;

}