Spanish Biomedical Crawled Corpus

Description

The largest Spanish biomedical and heath corpus to date gathered from a massive Spanish health domain crawler over more than 3,000 URLs were downloaded and preprocessed. The collected data have been preprocessed to produce the CoWeSe (Corpus Web Salud Español) resource, a large-scale and high-quality corpus intended for biomedical and health NLP in Spanish.

Directory structure

CoWeSe.txt: the CoWeSe corpus; an empty line separates each document

License

The corpus is released under this licensing scheme:

- We do not own any of the text from which these data has been extracted and preprocessed to be ready for use for language modeling tasks.

- We license the actual packaging of these data under a CC0 1.0 Universal License

Notice and take down policy

Notice: Should you consider that our data contains material that is owned by you and should therefore not be reproduced here, please:

Clearly identify yourself, with detailed contact data such as an address, telephone number or email address at which you can be contacted.

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Copyright (c) 2021 Text Mining Unit at BSC and Copyright (c) 2021 Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial

Cite

If you use this resource in your work, please cite our paper:

@misc{carrino2021spanish,
      title={Spanish Biomedical Crawled Corpus: A Large, Diverse Dataset for Spanish Biomedical Language Models}, 
      author={Casimiro Pio Carrino and Jordi Armengol-Estapé and Ona de Gibert Bonet and Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño and Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre and Martin Krallinger and Marta Villegas},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2109.07765},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}