European Clinical Case Corpus

Abstract Interpreting information in medical documents has become one of the most relevant application areas for language technologies. However, despite fact that huge amounts (e. g., examination reports, hospital discharge letters, digital records) are produced, their availability research purposes is still limited, due to strict data protection regulations. Aiming at fostering advanced extraction technologies applications, we present E3C, a corpus clinical case narratives fully based on freely licensed documents. E3C (European Clinical Case Corpus) contains vast selection cases (i. e., presenting patient’s history) cover different areas, styles and produced languages. A portion been manually annotated be used training testing purposes, while larger set automatically tagged serve as baseline future extraction.