This paper describes SPMED, a system for robust and accurate linguistic parsing of medical documents which is used in several industrial products. The basic design criterion of the system is of providing a set of basic powerful, robust, and generic linguistic knowledge sources and modules which can easily customized for processing different tasks in a flexible manner. The main application is seen in linguistic analysis of medical documents, yet the technology is easily applicable to other domains KEY WORDS shallow linguistic parsing, clause identification, biomedical domain
S. Schmeier, M. Hirsch