[Corpora-List] spotting names of drugs

[Ken Litkowski]

The Unified Medical Language System 
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/index.html> has all the medical 
terminology one would ever want. It includes a component, RxNorm 
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/index.html>, that provides 
a pretty thorough starting point for drug names. Although these vast 
resources are essentially free in the U.S., there may be some 
restrictions outside the U.S.

On 1/8/2013 10:45 AM, 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
>
> Academic Dictionaries
> Oxford University Press
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