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Markdown (Informal)
[Prompting Approaches to Abbreviation Expansion](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cawl-1.6/) (Gorman, CAWL 2026)
ACL
- Kyle Gorman. 2026. Prompting Approaches to Abbreviation Expansion. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 64–70, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).