Identification of confusable drug names: A new approach and evaluation methodology

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a   Dorr, Bonnie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; FEATURE-BASED; MEASURE OF SIMILARITIES; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEW APPROACHES; ORTHOGRAPHIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TEST SETS;

EID: 84962648955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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