Patent Document ID: 8442771
Application ID: 11727160

Base Claim:
1. A method of using a data-processing apparatus, having a processor, to normalize an individual mention of a subcellular entity within a biomedical text document, the method comprising using the data-processing apparatus to carry out: inputting said individual mention of a subcellular entity; selecting a group of identifiers of subcellular entities, said subcellular entities being referred to in biomedical text with the same character string and being from different species, each of said species being a taxonomic group of organisms which can interbreed; generating, using said processor, a species identifier that identifies the species of said individual mention of a subcellular entity from the context of said mention of a subcellular entity; selecting an identifier from said group of identifiers, taking into account the species identifier that identifies the species of said individual mention of a subcellular entity; and outputting said identifier to provide a normalized reference to said subcellular entity.

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Claim 7:
7. A method according to claim 1 , wherein generating said species identifier comprises using a machine trained algorithm which takes into account the text in a window around the said individual mention of a subcellular entity in the biomedical text document.