Patent ID: 9213690
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of selecting an expansion for an acronym in a document of a set of linked documents, the method comprising: obtaining for each occurrence of the acronym in the set of linked documents one or more possible acronym expansions and an associated probability that the one or more possible acronym expansions is the correct acronym expansion; identifying a sub-set of documents from the set of linked documents in which the acronym occurs; recalculating the associated probabilities for a first occurrence of an acronym in the sub-set of documents based, in part, on the associated probabilities of other occurrences of the acronym in the sub-set of documents and the distance between the first occurrence and the other occurrences; normalizing the recalculated associated probabilities for the first occurrence such that the sum of the recalculated associated probabilities equals one; and iteratively recalculating the associated probabilities for the first occurrence of the acronym using any previously recalculated associated probabilities of the other occurrences of the acronym.