@inproceedings{gorman-roark-2024-abbreviation,
    title = "Abbreviation Across the World`s Languages and Scripts",
    author = "Gorman, Kyle  and
      Roark, Brian",
    editor = "Gorman, Kyle  and
      Prud'hommeaux, Emily  and
      Roark, Brian  and
      Sproat, Richard",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.cawl-1.5/",
    pages = "36--42",
    abstract = "Detailed taxonomies for non-standard words, including abbreviations, have been developed for speech and language processing, though mostly with reference to English. In this paper, we examine abbreviation formation strategies in a diverse sample of more than 50 languages, dialects and scripts. The resulting taxonomy{---}and data about which strategies are attested in which languages{---}provides key information needed to create multilingual systems for abbreviation expansion, an essential component for speech processing and text understanding"
}