abbsolve

abbsolve is an abbreviation, initialism, and acronym resolver and inverter.

This package is designed to construct jargon dictionaries, especially in large organizations where ambiguous initialisms are used in regular communication. Such organizations often attempt to keep wiki pages or other internal lingo dictionaries, but this is rarely a high-priority task and they rarely stay fresh for long.

This package is specifically designed to help in cases where people keep saying things like "make sure to connect the ABC to the XYZ", and it's not clear what those things refer to. If you've been in a situation like that where you didn't want to stop a meeting to ask what those terms stand for, then I built this for you. If someone asks you for a "rundown" and you don't know what that is, then this package probably won't help you.

abbsolve works by finding semantically-related initialisms and corresponding full-text terms using a body of text from the context or organization where those terms occur. It runs entirely on your machine and makes no use of large language models (LLMs).

Roadmap

v0.0.1

• grep-based brute force calculation of inversion candidates
• initial performance optimization for large datasets

v0.1.0

• CLI version for terminal use
• ability to search digital-native PDFs

v0.2.0

• word2vec-based expansion ranker
• ability to search .docx and .pptx

v0.3.0

• transformer-based expansion ranker