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Contents

AAAI

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

ABox

Assertional Box

AC

Ambiguity Class

ACE

Australian Corpus of English; Automatic Content Evaluation

ACL

Association for Computational Linguistics

AD

Alzheimer’s Disease

ADJ

Adjective

AFL

Abstract Family of Languages

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ALPAC

Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee

AMI

Augmented Multi-party Interaction

AMR

Abstract Meaning Representation

ANNODIS

ANNOtation DIScursive

AP

Associated Press

API

Application Programming Interface

AQUAINT

Advanced Question and Answering for Intelligence

ARDA

Advanced Research and Development Activity

ArgM

Argument Modifier

ArgM-LOC

Argument Modifier-Locative

ArgM-TMP

Argument Modifier-Temporal

ARPA

Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARRAU

Anaphora Resolution and Underspecification

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASD

Autism Spectrum Disorder

ASR

Automatic Speech Recognition; Automatic Speech Recognizer

ASSERT

Automatic Statistical SEmantic Role Tagger

AT&T

American Telephone & Telegraph

ATN

Augmented Transition Network

AVM

Attribute-Value Matrix

BART

Bay Area Rapid Transit

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BCI

Brain–Computer Interface

BDI

Beliefs, Desires, and Intentions

BE

Basic Elements

BI-LSTM-CRF

Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Conditional Random Fields

BioNLP

Biomedical Natural Language Processing

BI-RNN

Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network

BIUTEE

Bar-Ilan University Textual Entailment Engine

BLANC

BiLateral Assessment of Noun-phrase Coreference

BLEU

Bilingual Evaluation Understudy

BLF

Backward-Looking Function

BMR

Bayesian Multi-class Regression

BMW

Bavarian Motor Works

BNC

British National Corpus

BOS

Beginning Of Sentence

BoW

Bag of Words

BYU

Brigham Young University

C

Consonant/Consonantal (phonology)

CA

Conversation Analysis; Correspondence Analysis

CALD

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

CALL

Computer-Assisted Language Learning

CART

Classification and Regression Trees

CAT

Computer-Aided Translation

CBoW

Continuous Bag of Words

CCG

Combinatory Categorical Grammar

CDO

Collateralized Debt Obligations

CDSM

Compositional Distributional Semantic Model

CEAF

Constrained Entity-Alignment F-Measure

CEAS

Conference on Email and Anti-Spam

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CESART

Campagne d’Evaluation de Systèmes d’Acquisition des Ressources Terminologiques

CF

Context-Free

CG

Constraint Grammar

CI

Confidence Interval

CIAA

International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata

CIDE

Cambridge International Dictionary of English

CIDOC

International Committee for Documentation

ciQA

Complex Interactive QA

CL

Controlled Language

CL!TR

Cross-Language Indian Text Reuse

CLASA

Cross-Language Alignment-based Similarity Analysis

CLAW

Controlled Language Applications Workshop

CLCNG

Cross-Language Character NGram

CLEF

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum; Clinical E-Science Framework

CLESA

Cross-Language Explicit Semantic Analysis

CLIR

Cross-Language/Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

CLPD

Cross-Language Plagiarism Detection

CMU

Carnegie Mellon University

CNF

Chomsky Normal Form

CNGL

Centre for Next Generation Localization

CNL

Controlled Natural Language

CNN

Convolutional Neural Network; Cable News Network

CNR

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

CNRS

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

COBUILD

COllins Birmingham University International Language Database

COC

Context-Oriented Clustering

COCA

Corpus of Contemporary American English

COCO

Common Objects in COntext

COLING

International Conference on Computational Linguistics

CoNLL

Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Conv-GRNN

Convolution-Gated Recurrent Neural Network

COREA

COreference Resolution for Extracting Answers

CPA

Corpus Pattern Analysis

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CR

Coherence Relation; Compression Ratio

CRAFT

Colorado Richly Annotated Full Text

CREA

Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual

CRF

Conditional Random Field

CRM

Conceptual Reference Mode

CS

Context-Sensitive

CTC

Connectionist Temporal Classification

CTS

Conversational Telephone Speech

CYK

Cocke–Younger–Kasami

DAMSL

Dialogue Act Markup in Several Layers

DANTE

Database of ANalysed Texts of English

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DBPedia

DataBasePedia

DEB

Dictionary Editing and Browsing

Det

Determiner

DFA

Deterministic Finite-State Automaton/Automata

DIPRE

Dual Iterative Pattern Relation Expansion

DIRT

Discovery of Inference Rules from Text

DIT

Dynamic Interpretation Theory

DJIA

Dow Jones Industrial Average

DL

Deep Learning; Description Logic

DLT

Distributed Language Translation

DNF

Disjunctive Normal Form

DNN

Deep Neural Network

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOLCE

Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering

DPL

Dynamic Predicate Logic

DRS

Discourse Representation Structure

DRT

Discourse Representation Theory

DSP

Digital Signal Processing; Discourse Segment Purpose

DSS

Deep Syntactic Structure

DT

Determiner (POS tag)

DUC

Document Understanding Conference

EACL

European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

EAGLES

Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards

EAMT–CLAW

European Association for Machine Translation–Controlled Language Applications Workshop

EBMT

Example-Based Machine Translation

EFL

English as a Foreign Language

EKAW

European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop

EL

English Learner

ELA

Error Level Analysis

ELEXIS

European Lexicographic Infrastructure

ELRA

European Language Resource Association

ELT

English Language Teaching

EM

Expectation Maximization

EMNLP

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

enetCollect

European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques

ESA

Explicit Semantic Analysis

ESL

English as a Second Language

ESWC

Extended Semantic Web Conference

ETS

Educational Testing Service

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EU

European Union

Europhras

European Society for Phraseology

EW

English Wikipedia

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization

FAQ

Frequently Asked Question

FastSent

Fast Sentence

FEIII

Financial Entity Identification and Information Integration

FET

Future and Emerging Technologies

FLAG

Flexible Language and Grammar

FLaReNet

Fostering Language Resources Network

FLF

Forward-Looking Function

F-Logic

Frame Logic

FMA

Foundation Model of Anatomy

fMRI

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

FN

False Negative

FNC

Fake News Challenge

FOIS

Formal Ontology in Information Systems

FOPL

First-Order Predicate Logic

FPR

False Positive Rate

FSA

Finite-State Automaton/Automata

FSM

Finite-State Machine

FSMNLP

Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

FST

Finite-State Transducer

GATE

General Architecture for Text Engineering

GEC

Grammatical Error Correction

GIS

Generalized Iterative Scaling

GL

Generative Lexicon

GloVe

Global Vectors for Word Representation

GloWbE

Corpus of Global Web-Based English

GM

Geometric Mean

GMM

Gaussian Mixture Model

GO

Gene Ontology

GPE

Geopolitical Entity

GPR

Grade Point Average

GPSG

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

GRE

Graduate Record Exam

GRU

Gated Recurrent Unit

GUS

Genial Understander System

GWA

Global WordNet Association

GWAP

Game with a Purpose

HAC

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering

hatEval

Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter

HFST

Helsinki Finite-State Technology; Helsinki Finite-State Transducer

HIT

Human Intelligence Test

HITS

Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search

HLT–NAACL

Human Language Technology–North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

HMM

Hidden Markov Model

HPSG

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

HTER

Human-targeted Translation Edit Rate

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HVR

Hapax-to-Vocabulary ratio

IAA

Inter-Annotator Agreement

IARPA

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

IATE

InterActive Terminology for Europe

IBKN

Instance-Based K-nearest Neighbour

IBM

International Business Machines

IC

Information Content

ICD

International Classification of Diseases

ICDM

Industrial Conference on Data Mining

ICE

In-Context Exact

ICIA

Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Institutul de Cercetări pentru Inteligența Artificială)

ICLE

International Corpus of Learner English

ICLR

International Conference on Learning Representations

ICML

International Conference on Machine Learning

ICoS

Inference in Computational Semantics

ICSI

International Computer Science Institute

ICSLP

International Conference on Spoken Language Processing

ICWSM

International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

IDF

Inverse Document Frequency

IE

Information Extraction

IEA

Intelligent Essay Assessor

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IG

Information Gain

IJCAI

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

ILES

Information Langue Ecrite et Signée

ILP

Inductive Logic Programming; Integer Linear Programming

IMLS

International Machine Learning Society

IN

Preposition (POS tag)

INEX

INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval

INF

Infinitive

INLG

International Natural Language Generation

IOB

Inside-Outside-Beginning

IPA

International Phonetic Alphabet

IR

Information Retrieval

ISCA

International Speech Communication Association

ISWC

International Standard Musical Work Code

IT

Information Technology

ITBM

Institute of Biomedical Technologies

IWCS

International Conference on Computational Semantics

IWPT

International Conference on Parsing Technologies

IWSLT

International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee

JMLR

Journal of Machine Learning Research

JNLPBA

Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications

KBP

Knowledge Base Population

KDD

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

KEA

Keyphrase Extraction Algorithm

KenLM

Kenneth Language Model

KIF

Knowledge Interchange Format

KPML

Komet-Penman Multilingual

KSL

Knowledge Systems Laboratory

KWIC

KeyWord In Context

LAT

Lexical Answer Type

LBA

Linear Bounded Automaton/Automata

LC

Left Context

LCP

Lexical Conceptual Paradigm

LCS

Least Common Subsumer; Lexical Conceptual Structure

LD

Linked Data

LDC

Linguistic Data Consortium

LDOCE

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

LDOW

Linked Data on the Web

lemon

Lexicon Model for Ontology

LexSiS

Lexical Simplification for Spanish

LF

Logical Form

LFG

Lexical Functional Grammar

LHS

Left-Hand Side

LIFO

Last In, First Out

LIMSI

Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur

LISA

Localization Industry Standards Association

LIWC

Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count

LM

Language Model

LNRE

Large Number of Rare Events

LOD

Linked Open Data

LP

Linear Prediction

LPC

Linear Predictive Coding

LREC

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

LSA

Latent Semantic Analysis

LSTM

Long Short-Term Memory

LTS

Letter-To-Sound

LVC

Light Verb Constructions

LVCSR

Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition

LVR

Language Variety Recognition

LWLM

Latent Words Language Model

MACE

Multi-Annotator Competence Estimation

MAP

Maximum A Posteriori; Mean Average Precision

MB

Megabyte(s)

MBROLA

MultiBand Resynthesis Overlap-Add

MBTI

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

MCE

Minimum Classification Error

MCRW

Multi-Class Real Window

MCS

Mildly Context-Sensitive

MD

Modal (POS tag)

ME

Maximum Entropy

MEDAL

Macmillan English Dictionaries for Advanced Learners

MEDLINE

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online

MEMM

Maximum Entropy Markov Model

MERT

Minimum Error Rate Training

MeSH

Medical Subject Heading

META

Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance

META-NET

Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance Network

METEOR

Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering

MFC

Mel Frequency Cepstral

MFS

Most Frequent Sense

MIR

Multilingual Information Retrieval

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ML

Machine Learning; Maximum Likelihood

MLE

Maximum Likelihood Estimation

MLLR

Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression

MLP

Multi-Layer Perceptron

MM

Markov Model

MMIE

Maximum Mutual Information Estimation

MMR

Maximum Marginal Relevance

MOSS

Measure of Software Similarity

MPE

Minimum Phone Error

MRD

Machine Readable Dictionary

MRDA

Meeting Recorder Dialogue Act

MRF

Markov Random Field

MRF-LM

Markov Random Field Language Model

MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

mRNA

Messenger Ribonucleic Acid

MRR

Mean Reciprocal Rank

MSRP

Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus

MT

Machine Translation

MUC

Message Understanding Conference

MWE

Multiword Expression; Minimum Word Error

N

Noun

N&SC

Necessary and Sufficient Condition

NAACL–HLT

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics–Human Language Technologies

NaCTeM

National Centre for Text Mining

NAICS

North American Industry Classification System

NAIST

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

NB

Naïve Bayes

NDCG

Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain

NDFA; NFA

Non-Deterministic Finite-state Automaton/Automata

NER

Named Entity Recognition

NIPS

Neural Information Processing System

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NL

Natural Language

NLG

Natural Language Generation

NLH

Neurolinguistic Healthcare

NLI

Native Language Identification

NLM

National Library of Medicine

NLP

Natural Language Processing

NLTK

Natural Language Toolkit

NN

Neural Network; Noun (POS tag)

NNS

Plural Noun (POS tag)

NODE

New Oxford Dictionary of English

NP

Noun Phrase

NP-hard

Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard

NPI

Negative Polarity Item

N-pl

Plural noun

NSF

National Science Foundation

N-sg

Singular noun

NTCIR

NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research

N–V

Noun–Verb

NYU

New York University

OAEI

Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative

OALDCE

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English

Obj; OBJ

Object

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ODE

Oxford Dictionary of English

OED

Oxford English Dictionary

OffensEval

Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media

OLAC

Open Language Archives Community

OLP

Ontology Learning and Population

OM

Ontology Matching

OOV

Out-Of-Vocabulary

OPP

Optimum Position Policy

OT

Optimality Theory

OVA

One-Versus-All

PAC

Probably Approximately Correct

PAHO

Pan-American Health Association

PAKDD

Pacific Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference

PARC

Palo Alto Research Center

PBSMT

Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

PCA

Principal Component Analysis

PCFG

Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar

pCRU

Probabilistic Context-Free Representational Underspecification

PDA

Pushdown Automaton/Automata

PDEV

Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs

PDF

Portable Document Format; Probability Density Function

PEG

Project Essay Grade

PFOIL

Propositional First-Order Inductive Learner

PJ

Perverted Justice

Pl

Plural

PLP

Perceptual Linear Prediction

PMI

Pointwise Mutual Information

PMI-IR

Pointwise Mutual Information and Information Retrieval algorithm

POMDP

Partially Observable Markov Decision Process

POS; PoS

Part of Speech

PP

Personal Pronoun; Prepositional Phrase

PPMI

Positive Pointwise Mutual Information

PRED

Predicate

PREP

Preposition

PRO

PRotein Ontology

PSET

Practical Simplification of English Text

QA

Question Answering

QDAP

Qualitative Data Analysis Program

QUD

Question Under Discussion

RAM

Reasoning, Attention, and Memory Workshop

RAP

Resolution of Anaphora Procedure

RBMT

Rule-Based Machine Translation

RC

Right Context

RDA

Relational Discourse Analysis

RDF

Resource Description Framework

RDFS

Resource Description Framework Schema

RE

Recursively Enumerable

REG

Regular Language

RF

Relevance Feedback

RHS

Right-Hand Side

RIF

Rule Interchange Format

RMSProp

Root Mean Square Propagation

RNN

Recurrent Neural Network

ROC

Receiver Operating Characteristic

ROUGE

Recall-Orientated Understudy for Gisting Evaluation

RR

Retention Ratio

RST

Rhetorical Structure Theory

RTE

Recognizing Textual Entailment

RTN

Recursive Transition Network

S

Sentence

SaaS

Software-as-a-Service

SAT

Speaker-Adaptive Training

SB

Statistical Barrier

SBD

Sentence Boundary Disambiguation

SCFG

Synchronous Context-Free Grammar

SciEL

Scientific Electronic Library Online

SCU

Summary Content Unit

SDC

System Development Corporation

SDTR

Structured Discourse Representation Theory

SEC

Security Exchange Commission

SECC

Simplified English Grammar and Style Checker/Corrector

SEMAFOR

Semantic Analyser of Frame Representations

SemDial

Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

SENNA

Semantic/Syntactic Extraction using Neural Network Architecture

SER

Sentence Error Rate

SEW

Simple English Wikipedia

SFG

Systemic-Functional Grammar

Sg

Singular

SIC

Standard Industrial Classification

SIGDAT

Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to Natural Language Processing

SIGDIAL

Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

SIGFSM

Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods

SIGGEN

Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

SIGLEX

Special Interest Group on the Lexicon

SIGMORPHON

Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology

SIGNLL

Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning

SIGPARSE

Special Interest Group on Parsing

SIGSEM

Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics

SIGWAC

Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus

SMT

Statistical Machine Translation

SNA

Social Network Analysis

SNOMED-CT

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine–Clinical Terms

SOA

Second-Order Attributes

SOCO

Source Code Reuse Evaluation Exercise

SOCPMI

Second-Order Co-occurrence Pointwise Mutual Information

SPARQL

Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language

SPCC

Speech Processing Courses in Crete

SPE

Sound Pattern of English

SPS

Signal Processing Society

SQuAD

Stanford Question Answering Dataset

SRA

Semantic Research Assistant; Semantic Role Alignment

SRL

Semantic Role Labelling

SRX

Segmentation Rules eXchange

SSA

Salient Semantic Analysis

SSI

Structural Semantic Interconnection

STE

Simplified Technical English

STT

Speech-To-Text

Subj; SUBJ

Subject

SUMO

Suggested Upper Merged Ontology

SVD

Singular Value Decomposition

SVM

Support Vector Machine

SWBD-DAMSL

Switchboard Dialogue Act Markup in Several Layers

SWEL

Semantic Web for E-Learning

SYSTAR

Syntactic Simplification of Text for Aphasic Readers

SYSTRAN

System Analysis Translator

TAC

Text Analysis Conference

TAG

Tree-Adjoining Grammar

TAUM

Traduction Automatique à l’Université de Montréal

TAUS

Translation Automation User Society

TBox

Terminological Box

TBX

TermBase eXchange

TD-PSOLA

Time Domain Pitch-Synchronous Overlap-Add

TEnT

Translation Environment Tool

TER

Translation Edit Rate

TERN

Temporal Expression Recognition and Normalization

TF

Term Frequency

TF–IDF

Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency

TimeML

Time Markup Language

TM

Translation Memory; Turing Machine

TMS

Terminology Management System

TMX

Translation Memory eXchange

TO

to (POS tag)

ToBI

Tones and Break Indices

TOEFL

Test Of English as a Foreign Language

TP

True Positive

TPR

True Positive Rate

TRAP

TempoRAl Patterns

TREC

Text REtrieval Conference

TRPs

Transition Relevant Places

TTC

Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools, and Comparable Corpora

TTR

Type–Token Ratio

TTS

Text-To-Speech

TüBa-D/Z

Die Tübinger Baumbank des Deutschen/Zeitungskorpus

UD

Universal Dependencies

UGC

User-Generated Content

UIMA

Unstructured Information Management Architecture

UMLS

Unified Medical Language System

UniProt

Universal Protein Resource

UNIX

Uniplexed Information and Computing Service

UNL

Universal Networking Language

UNTERM

United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database

UPON

Unified Process for ONtology building

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

USI

Universal Speech Interface

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

UW

Universal Word

V

Verb; Vowel/non-consonantal (phonology)

VarDial

Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects

VB

Verb, base form (POS tag)

VBD

Verb, past tense (POS tag)

VBN

Verb, past participle (POS tag)

VBP

Verb, non-third-person singular present (POS tag)

VPC

Verb–Particle Construction

V-pl

Plural verb

VQA

Visual Question Answering

V-sg

Singular verb

VT

Veins Theory

WA

Weighted Average

WASSA

Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, and Social Media Analysis

WePS

Web People Search

WER

Word Error Rate

WERTi

Working with English Real Texts interactively

WFSA

Weighted Finite-State Automaton/Automata

WFST

Weighted Finite-State Transducer

WiBi

Wikipedia Bitaxonomy

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization

WMT

Workshop/Conference on Statistical Machine Translation

WNE

WordNet Edges

W-NUT

Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text

WSD

Word Sense Disambiguation

WSDM

Web Search and Data Mining

WSJ

Wall Street Journal

WWB

Writer’s Workbench

WWW

World Wide Web

XLIFF

XML Localization Interchange File Format

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

XWN

eXtended WordNet

YAGO

Yet Another Great Ontology

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