Dataset Card for SCAI Disease

SCAI Disease is a dataset annotated in 2010 with mentions of diseases and adverse effects. It is a corpus containing 400 randomly selected MEDLINE abstracts generated using ‘Disease OR Adverse effect’ as a PubMed query. This evaluation corpus was annotated by two individuals who hold a Master’s degree in life sciences.

Citation Information

@inproceedings{gurulingappa:lrec-ws10,
  author    = {Harsha Gurulingappa and Roman Klinger and Martin Hofmann-Apitius and Juliane Fluck},
  title     = {An Empirical Evaluation of Resources for the Identification of Diseases and Adverse Effects in Biomedical Literature},
  booktitle = {LREC Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining},
  year      = {2010},
}