[Corpora-List] spotting names of drugs

[Phil Gooch]

The MiniChemDrugTagger plugin I wrote for GATE tries to do this, using
morphemes. No paper, but brief evaluation details here

http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~abdy181/software/#minichem

and you can download the plugin here

https://github.com/philgooch/MiniChemDrugTagger

Phil


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:45 PM, WHITELOCK, Pete <pete.whitelock at oup.com>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?).*
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