ALICE: An Algorithm to Extract Abbreviations from MEDLINE

ALICE extracted abbreviations and their expansions from the literature efficiently. The subtly compiled heuristics enabled it to extract abbreviations with high recall without significantly reducing precision. ALICE does not only facilitate recognition of an undefined abbreviation in a paper by constructing an abbreviation database or dictionary, but also makes biomedical literature retrieval more accurate. This system is freely available at http://uvdb3.hgc.jp/ALICE/ALICE_index.html.