Combining string and phonetic similarity matching to identify misspelt names of drugs in medical records written in Portuguese
Abstract Background 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 sea...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Biomedical Semantics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-019-0216-2 |