Authors
Sarvnaz Karimi, Alejandro Metke-Jimenez, Madonna Kemp, Chen Wang
Publication date
2015/6/1
Journal
Journal of biomedical informatics
Volume
55
Pages
73-81
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
CSIRO Adverse Drug Event Corpus (Cadec) is a new rich annotated corpus of medical forum posts on patient-reported Adverse Drug Events (ADEs). The corpus is sourced from posts on social media, and contains text that is largely written in colloquial language and often deviates from formal English grammar and punctuation rules. Annotations contain mentions of concepts such as drugs, adverse effects, symptoms, and diseases linked to their corresponding concepts in controlled vocabularies, i.e., SNOMED Clinical Terms and MedDRA. The quality of the annotations is ensured by annotation guidelines, multi-stage annotations, measuring inter-annotator agreement, and final review of the annotations by a clinical terminologist. This corpus is useful for studies in the area of information extraction, or more generally text mining, from social media to detect possible adverse drug reactions from direct patient reports …
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Scholar articles
S Karimi, A Metke-Jimenez, M Kemp, C Wang - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2015