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1University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA.
Summary:
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.
Availability:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ungar/medpie.zip.
Dependencies:
Python 2.6 or 2.7.
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