title: Automatic construction of dictionaries, application to product characteristics indexing.
abstract: Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) indexing enables to extract all the information needed to analyze a prescription and find some inappropriate medications. We evaluate a French Multi-Terminology Indexer tool (F-MTI) for SPC automatic indexing. This tool uses a dictionary containing the textual forms that are likely to appear in natural language text for the drug clinical particular terms contained in the Vidal thesaurus (TUV). We developed a method to automatically generate this dictionary. The evaluation showed a precision of 52.9% and a recall of 46.2%. F-MTI will be integrated in a semi-automatic indexing tool.
authors.affiliation: Vidal, 92420 Issy les Moulineaux, France. suzanne.pereira@vidal.fr
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Blandine
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Plaisantin
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Korchia
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rozanes
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Serrot
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joubert
authors.forename: Stéfan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Darmoni
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions / Q000517:prevention & control; D005602:France; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations