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  <Title>Annotation and Disambiguation of Semantic Types in Biomedical Text: a Cascaded Approach to Named Entity Recognition</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The development of EBIMed is supported by the Network of Excellence &amp;quot;Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine&amp;quot; (NoE 507505). Medline abstracts are provided from the National Library of Medicine (NLM, Bethesda, MD, USA) and PubMed is the premier Web portal to access the data.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Sylvain Gaudan is supported by an &amp;quot;E-STAR&amp;quot; fellowship funded by the EC's FP6 Marie Curie Host fellowship for Early Stage Research Training under contract number MESTCT- 2004504640. Goran Nenadic acknowledges supported from the UK BBSRC grant &amp;quot;Mining Term Associations from Literature to Support Knowledge Discovery in Biology&amp;quot; (BB/C007360/1).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> EBI thanks IBM for the grant of an IBM eServer BladeCenter for use in its research work.</Paragraph>
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