@inproceedings{gorman-roark-2024-abbreviation,
    title = "Abbreviation Across the World{'}s Languages and Scripts",
    author = "Gorman, Kyle  and
      Roark, Brian",
    editor = "Gorman, Kyle  and
      Prud'hommeaux, Emily  and
      Roark, Brian  and
      Sproat, Richard",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.cawl-1.5",
    pages = "36--42",
    abstract = "Detailed taxonomies for non-standard words, including abbreviations, have been developed for speech and language processing, though mostly with reference to English. In this paper, we examine abbreviation formation strategies in a diverse sample of more than 50 languages, dialects and scripts. The resulting taxonomy{---}and data about which strategies are attested in which languages{---}provides key information needed to create multilingual systems for abbreviation expansion, an essential component for speech processing and text understanding",
}

Detailed taxonomies for non-standard words, including abbreviations, have been developed for speech and language processing, though mostly with reference to English. In this paper, we examine abbreviation formation strategies in a diverse sample of more than 50 languages, dialects and scripts. The resulting taxonomy{---}and data about which strategies are attested in which languages{---}provides key information needed to create multilingual systems for abbreviation expansion, an essential component for speech processing and text understanding
Gorman, Kyle Roark, Brian
Abbreviation Across the World's Languages and Scripts