Abstract Background Siddha Medicine system is one among the oldest traditional systems of
medicines in India and has its entire literature in the Tamil language in the form of poems
(padal in tamil). Even if the siddha poems are available in public domain, they are not known
to other parts of the world because, researchers of other languages are not able to
understand the contents of these poems and there exists a language barrier. Hence there is
a need to develop a system to extract structured information from these texts to facilitate …