ADAM: another database of abbreviations in MEDLINE

• Published in: Bioinformatics Vol. 22; no. 22; pp. 2813 - 2818
• Main Authors: Zhou, Wei, Torvik, Vetle I., Smalheiser, Neil R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 15.11.2006; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Databases as Topic; Databases, Bibliographic; Databases, Factual; Dictionaries as Topic; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Software; Subject Headings; Terminology as Topic; Unified Medical Language System; User-Computer Interface; Abbreviation; Text mining; Original document; Terminology; Ontology; Biomedical information; Database; Extraction; Identification; Acronym; Web site; Bioinformatics

Motivation: Abbreviations are an important type of terminology in the biomedical domain. Although several groups have already created databases of biomedical abbreviations, these are either not public, or are not comprehensive, or focus exclusively on acronym-type abbreviations. We have created anot...