Three BioNLP Tools Powered by a Biological Lexicon

In this paper, we demonstrate three NLP applications of the BioLexicon, which is a lexical resource tailored to the biology domain. The applications consist of a dictionary-based POS tagger, a syntactic parser, and query processing for biomedical information retrieval. Biological terminology is a major barrier to the accurate processing of literature within biology domain. In order to address this problem, we have constructed the BioLexicon using both manual and semi-automatic methods. We demonstrate the utility of the biology-oriented lexicon within three separate NLP applications.