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FDA Phonetic and Orthographic Computer Analysis Program
- jcr 11y agoThis submission was reposted by request. The POCA software was mentioned in the "How FDA Reviews Proposed Drug Names" PDF and is somewhat interesting reading: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/MedicationErrors/ucm080867.pdf http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/MedicationErro... The PDF was previously submitted by 'aclimatt' here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10079659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10079659
- treerex 11y agoHere are two papers that describe the techniques used by the FDA system (or that were used in the mid-2000's) to find these confusable names. "Automatic identification of confusable drug names" (2006, http://goo.gl/W5DK0f http://goo.gl/W5DK0f PDF) and "Identification of Confusable Drug Names: A New Approach and Evaluation Methodology" (2004, http://goo.gl/RziUgf http://goo.gl/RziUgf PDF) Both by Grzegorz Kondrak and Bonnie Dorr. I've used the BI-SIM in a medical-informatics system and it does quite well. I'm also a big fan of EDITEX, which for some uses is better.