diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 177cfc0..0323d96 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
org.ohnlp.medtagger
medtagger
- 1.0.34
+ 1.0.35
The MedTagger biomedical information extraction pipeline
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/context/impl/ConTexTSettings.java b/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/context/impl/ConTexTSettings.java
index ed64abd..1bd7df3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/context/impl/ConTexTSettings.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/ohnlp/medtagger/context/impl/ConTexTSettings.java
@@ -107,7 +107,13 @@ public ConTexTSettings(/*String*/Object contextFile, int priority) throws FileNo
String line = sc.nextLine();
if (line.startsWith("#")) continue;
if (!(line.startsWith("//"))) {
+ if (line.trim().length() == 0) {
+ continue;
+ }
String[] tmp = line.split("~\\|~");
+ if (tmp.length < 4) {
+ continue;
+ }
// String phrase = tmp[0].replaceAll(" ", "[\\\\s\\\\-]+");
String phrase = tmp[0].trim();
boolean isRegex = phrase.startsWith("regex:");