---
language: 
- en
license: cc0-1.0
license_bigbio_shortname: CC0_1p0
pretty_name: NCBI Disease
---


# Dataset Card for NCBI Disease

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Dogan/DISEASE/
- **Pubmed:** True
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** Named Entity Recognition, Named Entity Disambiguation


The NCBI disease corpus is fully annotated at the mention and concept level to serve as a research
resource for the biomedical natural language processing community.



## Citation Information

```
@article{Dogan2014NCBIDC,
    title        = {NCBI disease corpus: A resource for disease name recognition and concept normalization},
    author       = {Rezarta Islamaj Dogan and Robert Leaman and Zhiyong Lu},
    year         = 2014,
    journal      = {Journal of biomedical informatics},
    volume       = 47,
    pages        = {1--10}
}

```