Acronyms

• ACL = Association for Computational Linguistics
• ALPAC = Automated Language Processing Advisory Committee
• AI = Artificial Intelligence
• CRF = Conditional Random Fields
• EM = Expectation Maximization
• HLT = Human Language Technologies
• HMM = Hidden Markov Model
• HPSG = Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
• IE = Information Extraction
• IR = Information Retrieval
• IST = Information Society Technologies
• KR = Knowledge Representation
• LFG = Lexical Functional Grammar
• LSA = Latent Semantic Analysis
• LSI = Latent Semantic Indexing
• ME = Maximum Entropy
• MI = Mutual Information
• ML = Machine Learning
• MRD = Machine-Readable Dictionary
• MT = Mechanical Translation/Machine Translation
• NE = Named Entity
• NER = Named Entity Recognition
• NLG = Natural Language Generation
• NLP = Natural Language Processing
• NLU = Natural Language Understanding
• PLSA = Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
• PMI = Pointwise Mutual Information
• POS = Part of Speech
• SVM = Support Vector Machine
• VSM = Vector Space Model
• WSD = Word Sense Disambiguation