FoodBase corpus: a new resource of annotated food entities.

ABSTRACT: The existence of annotated text corpora is essential for the development of public health services and tools based on natural language processing (NLP) and text mining. Recently organized biomedical NLP shared tasks have provided annotated corpora related to different biomedical entities such as genes, phenotypes, drugs, diseases and chemical entities. These are needed to develop named-entity recognition (NER) models that are used for extracting entities from text and finding their relations. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are limited annotated corpora that provide information about food entities despite food and dietary management being an essential public health issue. Hence, we developed a new annotated corpus of food entities, named FoodBase. It was constructed using reci

SUBMITTER: Popovski G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827550 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature