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Recently, medical accidents caused by drugs have attracted attention in Japan. To prevent this from affecting medical experts, it is effective to improve the ‘safety of drug usage’ via information systems. Although package insert information in SGML format is provided by PMDA, it is not easy to utilize this information for such systems because they lack a suitable structure to provide direct access to the required information. In this study, we propose certain methods to extract the active ingredient name from such unstructured SGML data.
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Nabeta, K., Kimura, M., Ohkura, M., Tsuchiya, F. (2009). A Proposal of a Method to Extract Active Ingredient Names from Package Inserts. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, M.J. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction. Human Interface 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02559-4_63
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