SciDr at SDU-2020: IDEAS -- Identifying and Disambiguating Everyday Acronyms for Scientific Domain
This work addresses acronym ambiguity in scientific domains, but it is incremental as it applies existing BERT-based methods to a specific task.
The paper tackled the problem of identifying and disambiguating acronyms in scientific text, achieving 11th place in Acronym Identification and 3rd place in Acronym Disambiguation in a shared task.
We present our systems submitted for the shared tasks of Acronym Identification (AI) and Acronym Disambiguation (AD) held under Workshop on SDU. We mainly experiment with BERT and SciBERT. In addition, we assess the effectiveness of "BIOless" tagging and blending along with the prowess of ensembling in AI. For AD, we formulate the problem as a span prediction task, experiment with different training techniques and also leverage the use of external data. Our systems rank 11th and 3rd in AI and AD tasks respectively.