[Tagging] "No abbreviations in names" edge case

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:50 AM, François Lacombe <
francois.lacombe at telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote:

> Could someone precise me why abbreviations should always be avoided in
> tagging please ?
>

This is already explained at length in the wiki, but chiefly because it
disambiguates things a lot.  Data consumers can create abbreviations from
full words, but expanding abbreviations accurately in an automated fashion
is about as hard as writing a program that can pass a Turing test.
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