A Distant Supervision Corpus for Extracting Biomedical Relationships Between Chemicals, Diseases and Genes
This dataset addresses the need for larger and cleaner resources in biomedical relation extraction, benefiting researchers in bioinformatics and computational biology.
The authors introduced ChemDisGene, a dataset of 80k biomedical abstracts with labeled mentions and relationships for training and evaluating multi-class multi-label relation extraction models, achieving approximately 78% accuracy in distant labeling and providing baseline models.
We introduce ChemDisGene, a new dataset for training and evaluating multi-class multi-label document-level biomedical relation extraction models. Our dataset contains 80k biomedical research abstracts labeled with mentions of chemicals, diseases, and genes, portions of which human experts labeled with 18 types of biomedical relationships between these entities (intended for evaluation), and the remainder of which (intended for training) has been distantly labeled via the CTD database with approximately 78\% accuracy. In comparison to similar preexisting datasets, ours is both substantially larger and cleaner; it also includes annotations linking mentions to their entities. We also provide three baseline deep neural network relation extraction models trained and evaluated on our new dataset.