Methods should be named to summarize their responsibilities meaningfully. When a method has a non-trivial responsibility, it may require a naming using multiple words. However, overlong method names are susceptible to typos and reduced readability (e.g., ...

Based on word vectors, this paper studies the semantic relationship between abbreviations and the original words from a quantitative perspective. First, we train word vectors according to the corpus of the People's Daily. Then, from the perspectives of ...

The communication nowadays has reached a need to express the idea in short text. This kind of communication is delivered in various media such as short messages service (SMS), Facebook status, Twitter post, chat messages, comments, and any form of ...

Text entry can be challenging for users with reduced motor function. Prefix-based prediction has been successfully applied for text in English and other languages. However, prefix-based text prediction does not work optimally in Germanic languages such ...

This paper presents a new method for improving the number of keystrokes and time required for text entry on mobile devices using ad-hoc abbreviations. The approach is easy-to-use because: users are not required to learn any pre-defined abbreviation ...

Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs) are commonly used to identify components of networks or protocols as designed or specified within the IETF. A common concern is that one acronym may have multiple expansions. While this may not have been an issue in the past, ...

We introduce a statistical model for abbreviation disambiguation in Web search, based on analysis of Web data resources, including anchor text, click log and query log. By combining evidence from multiple sources, we are able to accurately disambiguate ...

This Glossary provides definitions, abbreviations, and explanations of terminology for information system security. The 334 pages of entries offer recommendations to improve the comprehensibility of written material that is generated in the Internet ...

We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on PDAs or cell phones or by disabled users) by taking advantage of the informational redundacy in natural language. Previous ...