Patti Vaithiyam — An Information Extraction System for Traditional Tamil Medicines
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چکیده
This work attempts to extract traditional medicine related information from tamil siddha documents generally published as ‘health tips’ in websites, blogs and magazines. Sometimes a sub-section of it is also popularly known as ‘Paatti Vaithiyam’. It extracts names of the traditional medicines that are mentioned in the unstructured documents. The idea is to record the name of the items as well as the cure in connection with the process of preparing the home remedy. The output is obtained in a structured format that is easily understandable. Keywords— Information extraction, tamil siddha documents, traditional medicine, Paatti Vaithiyam
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