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. 2014 Jun 9;2014:bau044. doi: 10.1093/database/bau044

Table 1.

Characteristics of abbreviation definition corpora in biomedical literature

Corpora Ab3P BIOADI MEDSTRACT Schwartz&Hearst
Number of abstracts 1250 1201 199 1000
Number of abbreviation definitions 1223 1720 159 979
Number of unique abbreviation definitions (across the whole corpus) 1113 1421 152 842
Number of unique abbreviations (ShortForms) 998 1330 146 724