Re: Corpora: Subjective familiarity and objective frequency counts

From: Patrick Ruch (ruch@dim.hcuge.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 21:22:45 MET DST

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    > On a related note, I'd appreciate pointers to any corpus of
    > medical/pharmaceutical/nursing literature that might serve as the basis
    for
    > an empirical count of drug names in the professional or scientific press.

    I do not know any public available corpora for such task. However, if the
    target is the counting of drug names, then you could do the following:

    -get a list of drugs an chemicals, such a list can be bought on the shelf,
    and it is cheap. Usually they are 'representative' of the pharmacology
    within a given country.

    -For each item of this list you could query Medline (or any other medical
    database), they you can count the number of retrieved document. I believe
    some engines could even provides the number of occurrences for the
    considered item. Maybe, (but I should check) Knowledge Finder can do that,
    but if not then you always can do it.

    -patrick
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