Acronym paper

• Acronym definition see Acronym

Research questions

1. What do acronyms for scientific events and event series look like and how formal can they be described?
2. How well do acronyms disambiguate scientific events and event series?
3. How well is the acronym information curated in metadata sources for events and event series
4. How well are acronyms used in citations of scientific events and event series?
5. Acronym checker - does the Acronym fit the long version ...

Method

What do acronyms for scientific events and event series look like and how formal can they be described?

• Try regular expressions see Acronym_-_Regular_Expressions
• Check length histograms see https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ConferenceCorpus/blob/main/tests/testAcronymCategory.py

Results

What do acronyms look like

Length distribution

AcronymHistograms

= Standard case

60% of all WikiCFP acronyms extracted are matching the regular expression [A-Z]+\s*[12][0-9]{3} e.g. ISWC 2012

43990/73731 ( 59.7%)  matches for [A-Z]+\s*[12][0-9]{3}
654/43989 (  1.5%)  year different

• Corner cases:

SELECT acronym
FROM "event_wikicfp"
where length(acronym)=40

The acroynm entries with a length of 40 are mostly not acronyms ...

...
Political Theology Agenda Symposium 2010
Knowledge Engineering Special Issue 2010
CFP MapReduce Special Issue of CCPE 2010
AOSD - Student Research Competition 2011
special session for Wireless VITAE 2011
Political Theology Agenda Symposium 2011
12th EANN / 7th AIAI Joint Congress 2011 
...

• Exotic case:
• Outliers: