Language Independent Acquisition of Abbreviations
Table 2: Areas Under Pseudo-Precision/Recall Curves
['[BOLD] Language', '[BOLD] Schwartz and Hearst', '[BOLD] Candidate System 2', '[BOLD] Candidate Scores', '[BOLD] Word Embeddings', '[BOLD] Alignment']
Candidate Scores is a baseline system constructed by combining the method of Schwartz and Hearst Schwartz and Hearst The Word Embeddings system augments that baseline with the semantic features described in the Semantic Similarity by Word Embeddings section. The Alignment system further adds the alignment features from the Surface Similarity by Alignment section. For the languages with the least training data, the Alignment features do not produce significant improvement. This is perhaps because it is the most complex feature set.