Hi Dan,

Thank you so much for your input and sorry for late reply, some how I
missed your message and just checked the web interface!

My set of abbreviations are limited and all I need is expanding them in
one-to-one relationship, so I think I think a simple dictionary should
suffice. The closed I could find is an acronym with their full form from v
1.4 that could be helpful to someone else, here is the link:
http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/models-1.4/english/coref/acronyms

In my specific use case, I am going to normalize the data before using the
parser, so it would be easier to do this outside of opennlp, was hopping to
find something built-in. Thanks again and hope this file could help someone
else.

Best regards,
Ahmed

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Daniel Russ <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ahmed,
>
>      Of course there is no easy solution or you would not have needed
> help.  I am not familiar with any available models for abbreviations
> finding.  Are you concerned with disambiguating St. (Street) from St.
> (Saint), or do you have a list of abbreviations you just want to replace?
> If you are just doing string replacement, a simple hashmap should suffice.
> Otherwise, first you need to identify that a word is an abbreviation, and
> then what to replace it with.  You might want to have a map from
> abbreviation to a list of potential meaning, and train a model to
> disambiguate between potential meanings.  For example St is in the map
> pointing to {Street, Saint},  then depending on the words before and after
> (and whether they are capitalized) decide between the possible outcomes.
>
>    Someone with more experience than me can probably give you better
> advice.  I hope that I can get you started.  Also let us know if your get a
> working model.  It may help others later.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Ahmed Aboulenein wrote:
>
> > Hi ALL,
> >
> > Is there an easy way to expand the abbreviation in a String?
> >
> > For example: "I live close to main st." becomes "I live close to main
> > street."
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Ahmed
>
>

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