Combining string and phonetic similarity matching to identify misspelt names of drugs in medical records written in Portuguese

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 10; no. S1; pp. 17 - 7
• Main Authors: Tissot, Hegler, Dobson, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 12.11.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Algorithms; Information Storage and Retrieval; Language; Medical Records; Misspelt names of drugs; Natural Language Processing; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phonetic similarity; Phonetics; Portugal; Similarity search; Portugal; Phonetic similarity; Misspelt names of drugs; Similarity search

There is an increasing amount of unstructured medical data that can be analysed for different purposes. However, information extraction from free text data may be particularly inefficient in the presence of spelling errors. Existing approaches use string similarity methods to search for valid words...