---
language: 
- en
license: cc-by-2.0
license_bigbio_shortname: CC_BY_2p0
pretty_name: BioInfer
---


# Dataset Card for BioInfer

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://github.com/metalrt/ppi-dataset
- **Pubmed:** True
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** Relation Extraction, Named Entity Recognition


A corpus targeted at protein, gene, and RNA relationships which serves as a
resource for the development of information extraction systems and their
components such as parsers and domain analyzers. Currently, the corpus contains
1100 sentences from abstracts of biomedical research articles annotated for
relationships, named entities, as well as syntactic dependencies.



## Citation Information

```
@article{pyysalo2007bioinfer,
  title        = {BioInfer: a corpus for information extraction in the biomedical domain},
  author       = {
    Pyysalo, Sampo and Ginter, Filip and Heimonen, Juho and Bj{"o}rne, Jari
    and Boberg, Jorma and J{"a}rvinen, Jouni and Salakoski, Tapio
  },
  year         = 2007,
  journal      = {BMC bioinformatics},
  publisher    = {BioMed Central},
  volume       = 8,
  number       = 1,
  pages        = {1--24}
}

```