[Corpora-List] spotting names of drugs

[Phil Gooch]

UMLS is great, I use it all the time. But it's a kind of 'brute force'
approach to identifying terms. My understanding of the original question
was 'how do you identify a text string as potentially being drug name
without a dictionary?'

The surrounding words can give useful cues as to whether the preceding or
following one or two tokens might be a drug name, e.g. a dosage and/or
administration route.

Phil


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ken Litkowski <ken at clres.com> wrote:

>  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?).*
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> In addition, does anyone know where to get a list of drug names to use as
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