Many of the exported bibtex files (e.g. from DBLP or ACM) contain journal/conference names together with additional information (like the city where the conference was held, year, etc.).

For example:

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 {ACM} {SIGPLAN} International Conference on
               Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications,
               {OOPSLA} 2015, part of {SPLASH} 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October
               25-30, 2015},

while the conference name is International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, which should have the following abbreviation

booktitle = {OOPSLA},

Simple string replace is not sufficient in those cases, while more advanced abbreviation defined with string patterns (e.g. regular expressions) might work.

Would it be worthwhile to support journal abbreviations in such (more complex) cases?