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+############################################################################################
+#Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#limitations under the License.
+############################################################################################
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+def readme():
+    with open("README.md") as f:
+        README = f.read()
+    return README
+
+
+#with open("requirements.txt") as f:
+#    required = f.read().splitlines()
+
+#with open("requirements-optional.txt") as f:
+#    optional_required = f.read().splitlines()
+
+base_packages = ['transformers', 'nltk', 'pandas']
+
+setup(
+    name="Bio_Epidemiology_NER",
+    version="0.0.5",
+    description="Recognize bio-medical entities from a text corpus",
+    long_description=readme(),
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    url="https://github.com/dreji18/biomedicalNER",
+    author="Deepak John Reji, Shaina Raza",
+    author_email="deepakjohn1994@gmail.com",
+    license="MIT",
+    classifiers=[
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    ],
+    packages=find_packages(exclude=["*.tests", "*.tests.*", "tests.*", "tests"]),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    license_files=("LICENSE",),
+    install_requires=base_packages,
+    #extras_require={"full": optional_required,},
+)
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