The CLASSE GATOR (CLinical Acronym SenSE disambiGuATOR): A Method for predicting acronym sense from neonatal clinical notes.

•CLASSE GATOR uses transfer learning to disambiguate acronym sense from clinical notes by learning from pubmed central.•CLASSE GATOR provides a comprehensive set of acronyms and usages from scientific literature, with up to 50 senses.•CLASSE GATOR alleviates the need for expensive clinical annotation corpora for disambiguating acronym sense in clinical notes.