The SPECIALIST NLP Tools

The SPECIALIST Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools have been developed by the The Lexical Systems Group of The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications to investigate the contributions that natural language processing techniques can make to the task of mediating between the language of users and the language of online biomedical information resources. The SPECIALIST NLP Tools facilitate natural language processing by helping application developers with lexical variation and text analysis tasks in the biomedical domain. The NLP Tools are open source resources distributed subject to these terms and conditions.
The SPECIALIST lexicon A large syntactic lexicon of biomedical and general English, designed to provide the information needed for the SPECIALIST NLP System.
The SPECIALIST LexAccess A tool provides access to information from the SPECIALIST LEXICON.
The SPECIALIST lexical tools A set of JAVA programs designed to help users manage lexical variation, indexing, and normalization, etc. in biomedical text.
The SPECIALIST text tools A nested set of JAVA objects designed to help users analyze free text documents into words, terms, phrases, sentences and sections.
The SPECIALIST text categorization tools Java version of JDI tool to categorizes biomedical text for applications include Word Sense Disambiguation and retrieval according to discipile.
Spelling resource: GSpell Includes two programs GSpell a spelling suggestion tool and BagOwordsPlus a phrase retrieval tool.
Visual Tagging Tool Visual Tagging Tool is developed to ease the human tagging process for NLP by showing tagged text in different visual styles.