A language independent acronym extraction from biomedical texts with hidden Markov models.

This paper proposes to model the extraction of acronyms and their meaning from unstructured text as a stochastic process using Hidden Markov Models (HMM). The underlying, or hidden, chain is derived from the acronym where the states in the chain are made by the acronyms characters. The transition between two states happens when the origin state emits a signal.