汉语缩略语自动处理研究现状

Survey:Abbreviation Processing in Chinese Text

缩略语是自然语言中广泛使用的一类典型语言单元,也是最主要的新词来源。而新词会造成自然语言处理多个层面的困难。该文分析了汉语缩略语的特点,对汉语缩略语的构成形式作了总结,对汉语缩略语处理的问题作了划分,并针对不同的问题,重点介绍了在汉语中的研究现状;之后简要比较了汉语缩略语与英语缩略语的差异,并对英语缩略语处理的一些典型方法作了分析。

Abbreviation is a typical kind of language unit widely occuring in natural languages and contributes most OOVs which cause big difficulties for Natural Language Processing at different levels.This paper firstly makes a survey of properties and construction form of Chinese abbreviation;then classifies Chinese abbreviation problems into four aspects and sums up the related works for each one;finally investigates English abbreviation processing and compares some differences on abbreviation between in Chinese and in English.