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Hi Pete,<br>
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One source of drug names that I've used in the past is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nhs.uk/medicine-guides/pages/default.aspx">http://www.nhs.uk/medicine-guides/pages/default.aspx</a> -- you can
browse by initial letter or by condition if you have a specific
domain or application in mind.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/01/13 15:45, WHITELOCK, Pete
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, does anyone know where to get
a list of drug names to use as the starting point. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any help<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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Engineer, Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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