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Title:	ADAM: another database of abbreviations in MEDLINE
Authors:	Zhou, Wei Torvik, Vetle I. Smalheiser, Neil R.
Keywords:	MEDLINE Abbreviations Dictionaries Medical sciences Abbreviations Dictionaries
Issue Date:	18-Sep-2006
Publisher:	Bioinformatics
Citation:	Bioinformatics v. 22 no. 22 (2006): 2813–2818 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl480
Abstract:	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 another abbreviation database, ADAM, which covers commonly used abbreviations and their definitions (or long-forms) within MEDLINE titles and abstracts, including both acronym and non-acronym abbreviations. Results: A model of recognizing abbreviations and their long-forms from titles and abstracts of MEDLINE (2006 baseline) was employed. After grouping morphological variants, 59 405 abbreviation/long-form pairs were identified. ADAM shows high precision (97.4%) and includes most of the frequently used abbreviations contained in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Lexicon and the Stanford Abbreviation Database. Conversely, one-third of abbreviations in ADAM are novel insofar as they are not included in either database. About 19% of the novel abbreviations are non-acronym-type and these cover at least seven different types of short-form/long-form pairs. Availability: A free, public query interface to ADAM is available at http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu, and the entire database can be downloaded as a text file.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10027/148
Appears in Collections:	Publications - Arrowsmith

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