[Corpora-List] spotting names of drugs

Tue Jan 8 15:55:11 UTC 2013

Hi Pete,

One source of drug names that I've used in the past is 
http://www.nhs.uk/medicine-guides/pages/default.aspx -- you can browse 
by initial letter or by condition if you have a specific domain or 
application in mind.

Mark

On 08/01/13 15:45, WHITELOCK, Pete wrote:
>
> I'm interested in the problem of spotting that a particular string 
> that's not in one's dictionary is in fact the name of a drug. New 
> drugs and their names are being created all the time and it's pretty 
> easy as a human to see a string in isolation and see "yeh, that's a 
> drug name". Anyone done anything similar to this? I vaguely recall 
> some discussion of distinguishing boys' and girls' names (as an 
> exercise in some textbook?).
>
> In addition, does anyone know where to get a list of drug names to use 
> as the starting point.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Pete Whitelock, PhD
> Principal Language Engineer, Technology
>
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