AGRA: An Analysis-Generation-Ranking Framework for
Automatic Abbreviation from Paper Titles
Abstract
People sometimes choose word-like abbreviations
to refer to items with a long description. These abbreviations usually come from the descriptive text
of the item and are easy to remember and pronounce, while preserving the key idea of the item.
Coming up with a nice abbreviation is not an easy
job, even for human. Previous assistant naming
systems compose names by applying hand-written
rules, which may not perform well. In this paper,
we propose to view the naming task as an artificial
intelligence problem and create a data set in the domain of academic naming. To generate more delicate names, we propose a three-step framework, including description analysis, candidate generation
and abbreviation ranking, each of which is parameterized and optimizable. We conduct experiments
to compare different settings of our framework with
several analysis approaches from different perspectives. Compared to online or baseline systems, our
framework could achieve the best results.