DISTEMIST gazetteer

Please, cite use:

Miranda-Escalada, A., Gascó, L., Lima-López, S., Farré-Maduell, E., Estrada, D., Nentidis, A., Krithara, A., Katsimpras, G., Paliouras, G., & Krallinger, M. (2022). Overview of DisTEMIST at BioASQ: Automatic detection and normalization of diseases from clinical texts: results, methods, evaluation and multilingual resources. Working Notes of Conference and Labs of the Evaluation (CLEF) Forum. CEUR Workshop Proceedings

@article{miranda2022overview,
title={Overview of DisTEMIST at BioASQ: Automatic detection and normalization of diseases from clinical texts: results, methods, evaluation and multilingual resources},
author={Miranda-Escalada, Antonio and Gascó, Luis and Lima-López, Salvador and Farré-Maduell, Eulàlia and Estrada, Darryl and Nentidis, Anastasios and Krithara, Anastasia and Katsimpras, Georgios and Paliouras, Georgios and Krallinger, Martin},
booktitle={Working Notes of Conference and Labs of the Evaluation (CLEF) Forum. CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
year={2022}
}

The DISTEMIST gazetteer contains main terms and synonyms from the relevant branches of Snomed-CT for the grounding of disease mentions. There are mentions belonging to Snomed-CT hierarchies such as disorder, finding, or morphological abnormality.

The DISTEMIST Gazetteer is also used as an additional resource in the SocialDisNER task. 

Format

Tab-separated file with the following columns:

• code: Snomed-CT ID
• language
• term: string mention
• semantic_tag: Snomed-CT hierarchy
• mainterm: binary field, indicating whether the term is a main term, or not

DISTEMIST resources:

• Web
• DISTEMIST Gold Standard
• DISTEMIST annotation guidelines

SocialDisNER resouress:

• Web
• SocialDisNER corpora

For further information, please visit https://temu.bsc.es/livingner/ or email us at encargo-pln-life@bsc.es