GREC Licence
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1. Copyright of abstracts

The abstracts contained in the GREC corpus are from PubMed(R), a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

NLM data are produced by a U.S. Government agency and include works of the United States Government that are not protected by U.S. copyright law but may be protected by non-US copyright law, as well as abstracts originating from publications that may be protected by U.S. copyright law.

NLM assumes no responsibility or liability associated with use of copyrighted material, including transmitting, reproducing, redistributing, or making commercial use of the data. NLM does not provide legal advice regarding copyright, fair use, or other aspects of intellectual property rights. Persons contemplating any type of transmission or reproduction of copyrighted material such as abstracts are advised to consult legal counsel.

2. Copyright of annotations

The annotations within the abstracts are the result of work carried out at the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.  The annotations are copyrighted and licensed by NaCTeM under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Please attribute the corpus by citing the following paper:

Thompson, P., Iqbal, S. A., McNaught, J. and Ananiadou, S. (2009). Construction of an annotated corpus to support biomedical information extraction. BMC Bioinformatics 10:349 

3. References

- PubMed: http://www.pubmed.gov/

- NLM (United States National Library of Medicine): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

- NaCTeM: http://www.nactem.ac.uk



