Peter Machell wrote: > Not real dictionaries, but do you know where one can acquire a group of > medical words for use as a word processor dictionary? > > I'm particularly interested at this time in terms of Opthamology and > Psychiatry.
Peter, You want the SPECIALIST lexicon from the US National Library of Medicine. Despite it's name, it covers all of medicine, with about 20,000 medical words, including both correct (i.e. British) and degraded US spelling variants. and the license is open source. See http://lexsrv3.nlm.nih.gov/SPECIALIST/index.html The files may require some massaging before they can be imported into word processor spelling dictionaries, but suggest that you google for this as someone is sure to have already tackled that issue and there'll probably be a Perl or Python script somewhere that you can use. Let us know how you go. It is the primary reference source for the Bayesian spelling corrector research I mentioned in a previous post. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
