title: medpie: an information extraction package for medical message board posts.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  We have developed medpie, a software package for preparing medical message board corpora and extracting patient mentions and statistics for drugs, herbs and adverse effects experienced from them. The package is divided into web-crawling, HTML-cleaning, de-identification and information extraction modules. It also includes a sample controlled vocabulary of drugs, herbs and adverse effect terms.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ungar/medpie.zip.
  Python 2.6 or 2.7.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benton
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ungar
mesh_terms: D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D004032:Diet; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software