TITLE:		AUTOMATIC ABBREVIATION GENERATION
AUTHORS:	Gregg M. Stum, Patrick W. Demasco,
		and Kathleen F. McCoy
COMMENTS:	(c) 1991 RESNA Press. Reprinted with permission.


ABSTRACT:
This work is part of an augmentative communication project being
conducted at the Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories of the
University of Delaware and the A.I. duPont Institute. The goal is to
reduce the demands of traditional abbreviation expansion systems, on
both the clinician and the client, by providing a clinical aid for
constructing a fixed set of abbreviations for a vocabulary, and a user
tool for recognizing a variable set of abbreviations for a vocabulary
item. To this end an abbreviation generator produces all the possible
abbreviations associated with a vocabulary under a well defined model
of abbreviation.