​Annotation of negation in the IULA Spanish Clinical Record Corpus

Marimon, Montserrat; Vivaldi, J. (Jorge), 1952-; Bel Rafecas, Núria

Annotation of negation in the IULA Spanish Clinical Record Corpus

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Marimon M, Vivaldi J, Bel N. Annotation of negation in the IULA Spanish Clinical Record Corpus. In: Blanco E, Morante R, Saurí R, editors. SemBEaR 2017. Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles; 2017 Apr 4; Valencia, Spain. Stroudsburg (PA): ACL; 2017. p. 43-52.

Abstract

This paper presents the IULA Spanish Clinical Record Corpus, a corpus of 3,194 sentences extracted from anonymized clinical records and manually annotated with negation markers and their scope. The corpus was conceived as a resource to support clinical text-mining systems, but it is also a useful resource for other Natural Language Processing systems handling clinical texts: automatic encoding of clinical records, diagnosis support, term extraction, among others, as well as for the study of clinical texts. The corpus is publicly available with a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.