title: Cross-lingual alignment of biomedical acronyms and their expansions.
abstract: We propose a method that aligns biomedical acronyms and their definitions across different languages. The approach is based upon a freely available tool for the extraction of abbreviations together with their expansions, and the subsequent normalization of language-specific variants, synonyms, and translations of the extracted acronym definitions. In this step, acronym expansions are mapped onto a language-independent concept-layer on which intra- as well as interlingual comparisons are drawn.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Department, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany.
authors.forename: Kornél
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Markó
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Daumke
authors.forename: Udo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D008490:Medical Informatics; D019303:Multilingualism; D011381:Programming Languages; D012660:Semantics