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Drug name recognition: Approaches and resources

  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Drug name recognition (DNR), which seeks to recognize drug mentions in unstructured medical texts and classify them into pre-defined categories, is a fundamental task of medical information extraction, and is a key component of many medical relation extraction systems and applications. A large number of efforts have been devoted to DNR, and great progress has been made in DNR in the last several decades. We present here a comprehensive review of studies on DNR from various aspects such as the challenges of DNR, the existing approaches and resources for DNR, and possible directions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)790-810
Number of pages21
JournalInformation (Switzerland)
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Biomedical texts
  • Drug information extraction
  • Drug name recognition

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