Krajšavar—an Algorithm for Recognizing English Abbreviations in Texts Related to Criminal Justice and Security

Abstract In the paper, we try to classify texts from the criminal justice and security field according to the classification for LSP (Language for Specific Purpose) texts prepared by Mikolič (2007) for the typology of tourism texts. Within that classification, we outline the current position held by the LSP field of criminal justice and security in Slovenia and the development of field-specific terminology. The classification of texts allows us to collect manually samples of English text types with respect to subcategories of criminal justice and security texts. From the texts obtained, we automatically extract abbreviations and expansions from the field of criminal justice and security. The scope of the paper is to discover insights into abbreviations from the field of criminal justice and security. Texts are filtered using an algorithm for the automatic recognition of abbreviations—Krajšavar—and a list of English abbreviations and expansions from the field of criminal justice and security is obtained and published in Termania dictionary editing mask.