This paper presents the disease name and concept annotations of the NCBI disease corpus, a collection of 793 PubMed
abstracts fully annotated at the mention and concept level to serve as a research resource for the biomedical natural
language processing community. Each PubMed abstract was manually annotated by two annotators with disease mentions
and their corresponding concepts in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) or Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM®).
Manual curation was performed using PubTator, which allowed the use of pre-annotations as a pre-step to manual annotations.
Fourteen annotators were randomly paired and differing annotations were discussed for reaching a consensus in two
annotation phases. In this setting, a high inter-annotator agreement was observed. Finally, all results were checked
against annotations of the rest of the corpus to assure corpus-wide consistency.
The original dataset can be downloaded from:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Dogan/DISEASE/NCBI_corpus.zip
This dataset has been converted to CoNLL format for NER using the following tool:
https://github.com/spyysalo/standoff2conll
Note: there is a duplicate document (PMID 8528200) in the original data, and the duplicate is recreated in the converted data.
