---
language:
- en
bigbio_language:
- English
license: unknown
multilinguality: monolingual
bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN
pretty_name: EBM NLP
homepage: https://github.com/bepnye/EBM-NLP
bigbio_pubmed: true
bigbio_public: true
bigbio_tasks:
- NAMED_ENTITY_RECOGNITION
dataset_info:
  config_name: ebm_pico_source
  features:
  - name: doc_id
    dtype: string
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: entities
    list:
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: annotation_type
      dtype: string
    - name: fine_grained_annotation_type
      dtype: string
    - name: start
      dtype: int64
    - name: end
      dtype: int64
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 13607728
    num_examples: 4746
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 565331
    num_examples: 187
  download_size: 5915453
  dataset_size: 14173059
configs:
- config_name: ebm_pico_source
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: ebm_pico_source/train-*
  - split: test
    path: ebm_pico_source/test-*
  default: true
---


# Dataset Card for EBM NLP

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://github.com/bepnye/EBM-NLP
- **Pubmed:** True
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** NER


This corpus release contains 4,993 abstracts annotated with (P)articipants,
(I)nterventions, and (O)utcomes. Training labels are sourced from AMT workers and
aggregated to reduce noise. Test labels are collected from medical professionals.



## Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{nye-etal-2018-corpus,
    title = "A Corpus with Multi-Level Annotations of Patients, Interventions and Outcomes to Support Language Processing for Medical Literature",
    author = "Nye, Benjamin  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy  and
      Patel, Roma  and
      Yang, Yinfei  and
      Marshall, Iain  and
      Nenkova, Ani  and
      Wallace, Byron",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Melbourne, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/P18-1019",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P18-1019",
    pages = "197--207",
}

```