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Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 8, 2004
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth227
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Received December 19, 2003
Revised February 18, 2004
Accepted March 4, 2004

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MedPost: a part of speech tagger for biomedical text

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

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

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lsmith{at}ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.


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

Availability: Software, documentation, and a corpus of 5 700 manually tagged sentences are available at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/lsmith/MedPost/medpost.tar.gz.


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