Datasets:
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- expert-generated
languages:
- es
licenses:
- cc-by-nc-sa-4-0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- structure-prediction
task_ids:
- named-entity-recognition
- structure-prediction-other-relation-prediction
Dataset Card for eHealth-KD
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: eHealth-KD homepage
- Repository: eHealth-KD repository
- Paper: eHealth-KD overview paper
- Leaderboard: eHealth-KD Challenge 2020 official results
- Point of Contact: Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez (Organization Committee), María Grandury (Dataset Submitter)
Dataset Summary
Dataset of the eHealth-KD Challenge at IberLEF 2020. It is designed for the identification of semantic entities and relations in Spanish health documents.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
The eHealth-KD challenge proposes two computational subtasks:
named-entity-recognition
: Given a sentence of an eHealth document written in Spanish, the goal of this subtask is to identify all the entities and their types.relation-prediction
: The purpose of this subtask is to recognise all relevant semantic relationships between the entities recognised.
For an analysis of the most successful approaches of this challenge, read the eHealth-KD overview paper.
Languages
The text in the dataset is in Spanish (BCP-47 code: es
).
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
The first example of the eHeatlh-KD Corpus train set looks as follows:
{
'sentence': 'En la leucemia linfocítica crónica, hay demasiados linfocitos, un tipo de glóbulos blancos.',
'entities': {
[
'ent_id: 'T1',
'ent_text': 'leucemia linfocítica crónica',
'ent_label': 0,
'start_character': 6,
'end_character': 34
],
[
'ent_id: 'T2',
'ent_text': 'linfocitos',
'ent_label': 0,
'start_character': 51,
'end_character': 61
],
[
'ent_id: 'T3',
'ent_text': 'glóbulos blancos',
'ent_label': 0,
'start_character': 74,
'end_character': 90
]
},
relations: {
[
'rel_id: 'R0'
'rel_label': 0,
'arg1': T2
'arg2': T3
],
[
'rel_id': 'R1'
'rel_label': 5,
'arg1': T1,
'arg2': T2
]
}
}
Data Fields
sentence
: sentence of an eHealth document written in Spanishentities
: list of entities identified in the sentenceent_id
: entity identifier (T
+ a number)ent_text
: entity, can consist of one or more complete words (i.e., not a prefix or a suffix of a word), and will never include any surrounding punctuation symbols, parenthesis, etc.ent_label
: type of entity (Concept
,Action
,Predicate
orReference
)start_character
: position of the first character of the entityend_character
: position of the last character of the entity
relations
: list of semantic relationships between the entities recognisedrel_id
: relation identifier (R
+ a number)rel_label
: type of relation, can be a general relation (is-a
,same-as
,has-property
,part-of
,causes
,entails
), a contextual relation (in-time
,in-place
,in-context
) an action role (subject
,target
) or a predicate role (domain
,arg
).arg1
: ID of the first entity of the relationarg2
: ID of the second entity of the relation
For more information about the types of entities and relations, click here.
Data Splits
The data is split into a training, validation and test set. The split sizes are as follow:
Train | Val | Test | |
---|---|---|---|
eHealth-KD 2020 | 800 | 199 | 100 |
In the challenge there are 4 different scenarios for testing. The test data of this dataset corresponds to the third scenario. More information about the testing data here.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The vast amount of clinical text available online has motivated the development of automatic knowledge discovery systems that can analyse this data and discover relevant facts.
The eHealth Knowledge Discovery (eHealth-KD) challenge, in its third edition, leverages a semantic model of human language that encodes the most common expressions of factual knowledge, via a set of four general-purpose entity types and thirteen semantic relations among them. The challenge proposes the design of systems that can automatically annotate entities and relations in clinical text in the Spanish language.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
As in the previous edition, the corpus for eHealth-KD 2020 has been extracted from MedlinePlus sources. This platform freely provides large health textual data from which we have made a selection for constituting the eHealth-KD corpus. The selection has been made by sampling specific XML files from the collection available in the Medline website.
“MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Website for patients and their families and
friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it
brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can
understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.”
These files contain several entries related to health and medicine topics and have been processed to remove all XML markup to extract the textual content. Only Spanish language items were considered. Once cleaned, each individual item was converted to a plain text document, and some further post-processing is applied to remove unwanted sentences, such as headers, footers and similar elements, and to flatten HTML lists into plain sentences.
Who are the source language producers?
As in the previous edition, the corpus for eHealth-KD 2020 was extracted from MedlinePlus sources.
Annotations
Annotation process
Once the MedlinePlus files were cleaned, they were manually tagged using BRAT by a group of annotators. After tagging, a post-processing was applied to BRAT’s output files (ANN format) to obtain the output files in the formats needed for the challenge.
Who are the annotators?
The data was manually tagged.
Personal and Sensitive Information
[More Information Needed]
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
"The eHealth-KD 2020 proposes –as the previous editions– modeling the human language in a scenario in which Spanish electronic health documents could be machine-readable from a semantic point of view.
With this task, we expect to encourage the development of software technologies to automatically extract a large variety of knowledge from eHealth documents written in the Spanish Language."
Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed]
Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed]
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Organization Committee
Name | Institution | |
---|---|---|
Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez (contact person) | ygutierrez@dlsi.ua.es | University of Alicante, Spain |
Suilan Estévez Velarde | sestevez@matcom.uh.cu | University of Havana, Cuba |
Alejandro Piad Morffis | apiad@matcom.uh.cu | University of Havana, Cuba |
Yudivián Almeida Cruz | yudy@matcom.uh.cu | University of Havana, Cuba |
Andrés Montoyo Guijarro | montoyo@dlsi.ua.es | University of Alicante, Spain |
Rafael Muñoz Guillena | rafael@dlsi.ua.es | University of Alicante, Spain |
Funding
This research has been supported by a Carolina Foundation grant in agreement with University of Alicante and University of Havana. Moreover, it has also been partially funded by both aforementioned universities, IUII, Generalitat Valenciana, Spanish Government, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte through the projects SIIA (PROMETEU/2018/089) and LIVINGLANG (RTI2018-094653-B-C22).
Licensing Information
This dataset is under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
To accept the distribution terms, please fill in the following form.
Citation Information
In the following link you can find the preliminar bibtexts of the systems’ working-notes. In addition, to cite the eHealth-KD challenge you can use the following preliminar bibtext:
@inproceedings{overview_ehealthkd2020,
author = {Piad{-}Morffis, Alejandro and
Guti{\'{e}}rrez, Yoan and
Ca{\~{n}}izares-Diaz, Hian and
Estevez{-}Velarde, Suilan and
Almeida{-}Cruz, Yudivi{\'{a}}n and
Mu{\~{n}}oz, Rafael and
Montoyo, Andr{\'{e}}s},
title = {Overview of the eHealth Knowledge Discovery Challenge at IberLEF 2020},
booktitle = ,
year = {2020},
}
Contributions
Thanks to @mariagrandury for adding this dataset.