HiTZ/Multilingual-Medical-Corpus

Mutilingual Medical Corpus

Multilingual-Medical-Corpus a 3 billion word multilingual corpus for training LLMs adapted to the medical domain. Multilingual-Medical-Corpus includes four languages, namely, English, Spanish, French, and Italian.

• 📖 Paper: Medical mT5: An Open-Source Multilingual Text-to-Text LLM for The Medical Domain
• 🌐 Project Website: https://univ-cotedazur.eu/antidote

Corpus Description

• Developed by: Iker García-Ferrero, Rodrigo Agerri, Aitziber Atutxa Salazar, Elena Cabrio, Iker de la Iglesia, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Benjamin Molinet, Johana Ramirez-Romero, German Rigau, Jose Maria Villa-Gonzalez, Serena Villata and Andrea Zaninello
• Contact: Iker García-Ferrero and Rodrigo Agerri
• Website: https://univ-cotedazur.eu/antidote
• Funding: CHIST-ERA XAI 2019 call. Antidote (PCI2020-120717-2) funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR
• Language(s) (NLP): English, Spanish, French, Italian
• License: apache-2.0

Data sources and word counts by language.

Language	Source	Words
English	ClinicalTrials	127.4M
	EMEA	12M
	PubMed	968.4M
Spanish	EMEA	13.6M
	PubMed	8.4M
	Medical Crawler	918M
	SPACC	350K
	UFAL	10.5M
	WikiMed	5.2M
French	PubMed	1.4M
	Science Direct	15.2M
	Wikipedia - Médecine	5M
	EDP	48K
	Google Patents	654M
Italian	Medical Commoncrawl - IT	67M
	Drug instructions	30.5M
	Wikipedia - Medicina	13.3M
	E3C Corpus - IT	11.6M
	Medicine descriptions	6.3M
	Medical theses	5.8M
	Medical websites	4M
	PubMed	2.3M
	Supplement description	1.3M
	Medical notes	975K
	Pathologies	157K
	Medical test simulations	26K
	Clinical cases	20K

Open Source Models trained with Multilingual-Medical-Corpus:

	HiTZ/Medical-mT5-large	HiTZ/Medical-mT5-xl	HiTZ/Medical-mT5-large-multitask	HiTZ/Medical-mT5-xl-multitask
Param. no.	738M	3B	738M	3B
Task	Language Modeling	Language Modeling	Multitask Sequence Labeling	Multitask Sequence Labeling

Citation

@misc{garcíaferrero2024medical,
      title={Medical mT5: An Open-Source Multilingual Text-to-Text LLM for The Medical Domain}, 
      author={Iker García-Ferrero and Rodrigo Agerri and Aitziber Atutxa Salazar and Elena Cabrio and Iker de la Iglesia and Alberto Lavelli and Bernardo Magnini and Benjamin Molinet and Johana Ramirez-Romero and German Rigau and Jose Maria Villa-Gonzalez and Serena Villata and Andrea Zaninello},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2404.07613},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}