ALICE: An Algorithm to Extract Abbreviations from MEDLINE

Table 1

Acceptance Conditions for an Inner

Type/Example	Target Appearance Pattern	Inner	The Initial Character of the First Inner Word	The Last Character of the Last Inner Word
1 neutrophil peptide-1 (NP-1)	Outer(inner)	Alphanumeric characters, hyphens, spaces, under-bars, periods, primes, or commas	An alphanumeric	An alphanumeric or a period
2 polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP)	Outer_(inner)	As above	As above	As above
3 Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)	Outer(inner)	Uppercase letters, digits, or slashes	An uppercase letter or a digit	An uppercase letter or a digit
	Outer_(inner)
4 Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS; Liebowitz, 1987)‡	Outer(inner; **)	A colon or a semicolon,† AND uppercase letters, digits, or hyphens	As above	As above
	Outer(inner: **)
	Outer_(inner; **)
	Outer_(inner: **)

‘_’: a space, ‘^**’: any characters.
↵† The inner is defined as a string before the colon or the semicolon.
↵‡ In this case, only LSAS is the inner.

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