Hi Ahmed,
Of course there is no easy solution or you would not have needed help. I
am not familiar with any available models for abbreviations finding. Are you
concerned with disambiguating St. (Street) from St. (Saint), or do you have a
list of abbreviations you just want to replace? If you are just doing string
replacement, a simple hashmap should suffice. Otherwise, first you need to
identify that a word is an abbreviation, and then what to replace it with. You
might want to have a map from abbreviation to a list of potential meaning, and
train a model to disambiguate between potential meanings. For example St is in
the map pointing to {Street, Saint}, then depending on the words before and
after (and whether they are capitalized) decide between the possible outcomes.
Someone with more experience than me can probably give you better advice. I
hope that I can get you started. Also let us know if your get a working model.
It may help others later.
Dan
On Apr 24, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Ahmed Aboulenein wrote:
> Hi ALL,
>
> Is there an easy way to expand the abbreviation in a String?
>
> For example: "I live close to main st." becomes "I live close to main
> street."
>
> Many thanks,
> Ahmed
