diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f5b3d27..a9462c9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
org.ohnlp.medtagger
medtagger
- 1.0.80
+ 1.0.81
The MedTagger biomedical information extraction pipeline
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/sectag/RulebasedSectionAnnotator.java b/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/sectag/RulebasedSectionAnnotator.java
index d000f07..5e3534a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/sectag/RulebasedSectionAnnotator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/sectag/RulebasedSectionAnnotator.java
@@ -125,13 +125,18 @@ public void process(JCas jCas) throws AnalysisEngineProcessException {
private Segment SecIndicator(Sentence sen, JCas jcas) {
String str=sen.getCoveredText();
Segment cSeg=null;
- int pos=str.indexOf(":");
- String secStr;
- if(pos < 0 || pos >=100)
- secStr=str;
- else {
- secStr=str.substring(0,pos);
- }
+ int pos = -1;
+ int colonPos=str.indexOf(":");
+ int senPos = pos= str.indexOf("\n");
+ if (colonPos == -1) {
+ pos = senPos;
+ } else if (senPos == -1) {
+ pos = colonPos;
+ } else {
+ pos = Math.min(senPos, colonPos);
+ };
+ if(pos < 0 || pos >=100) return null;
+ String secStr = str.substring(0, pos);
if(sectionMap.containsKey(lvg.getNorm(secStr))){
sen.removeFromIndexes(jcas);
String cSegment=sectionMap.get(lvg.getNorm(secStr));