Abbreviation Expansion — Acronym and Short-Form Resolution

Abbreviation and acronym resolution is a natural-language-processing pipeline that maps each short form in a text to its full-length definition using contextual cues from the surrounding text. It is especially important in medical, legal, and technical documents, where the same acronym may carry entirely different meanings across domains. The field's foundational algorithm was published by Schwartz and Hearst (2003) for biomedical literature and has since been extended by neural and transformer-based approaches.