... by its set of ver-tices and its set of edges. Therefore, the domain of a graph consists of a set of possible vertices, in ourcase for the atoms, and possible edges, in our case for the bonds. ... anumber of different names and name types for onechemical compound, namely several systematic,semi-systematic, trivial and trade names. For ex-ample, pentan-2-ol is the recommended name for the ... names are important aspects of the tasks of BioNLP. This paper introducesthe architecture of a system for the syntac-tic and semantic analysis of such names.Our system aims at yielding both...