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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on April 8, 2004
Bioinformatics 2004 20(14):2320-2321; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth227
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MedPost: a part-of-speech tagger for bioMedical text

L. Smith 1,*, T. Rindflesch 2 and W. J. Wilbur 1

1 Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information and 2 Cognitive Science Branch, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

Received on December 19, 2003; revised on February 18, 2004; accepted on March 4, 2004
Advance Access Publication April 8, 2004

Summary: We present a part-of-speech tagger that achieves over 97% accuracy on MEDLINE citations.

Availability: Software, documentation and a corpus of 5700 manually tagged sentences are available at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/lsmith/MedPost/medpost.tar.gz

Contact: lsmith{at}ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


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