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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.

Reading is characterized by the successful coor- dination of a number of concurrent processing layers (Pressley & Afflerbach, 1995). Many pro- I cessing activities occur automatically for the ex- perienced reader, such as lexical access, anaphor resolution (deciding to whom the author refers), and proposition integration. Others require the allocation of conscious attention, for instance, when elaborating on text meaning or when generating bridging inferences to integrate meanings across paragraphs (Kintsch, 1993). Although reading requires a coordination between auto- matic and attention-demanding (control) processing activ- ities, existent models of reading provide at best only a partial understanding of how the two processing types interact.

Medical Text Indexer (MTI)