multilinguality:monolingual language:en license:unknown region:us
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.
@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},
}

---
language: 
- en
bigbio_language: 
- English
license: unknown
multilinguality: monolingual
bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN
pretty_name: SCAI Disease
homepage: https://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/en/business-research-areas/bioinformatics/downloads/corpus-for-disease-names-and-adverse-effects.html
bigbio_pubmed: True
bigbio_public: True
bigbio_tasks: 
- NAMED_ENTITY_RECOGNITION
---


# Dataset Card for SCAI Disease

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/en/business-research-areas/bioinformatics/downloads/corpus-for-disease-names-and-adverse-effects.html
- **Pubmed:** True
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** NER


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},
}

```
