On Wednesday 29 November 2006 07:13, Tim Churches wrote:
> 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
it's 604MB so can't work anything out until a few more hours have gone
or maybe i should have been more choosy than getting the whole tgz
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