Postpartum Depression Named Entity Dataset

We created a dataset of postpartum depression (PPD) forum threads with biomedical term annotations.

Data

This corpus includes pre-processed 10,548 BabyCenter.com forum threads (posts and comments) and MMLite annotations.

The "PPD-NER-Corpus-1.0" folder contains pre-processed text files for each PPD forum thread (.txt files), annotation files (.ann files), and the MMLite configuration file (annotation.conf).

Preparation

MMLite[1] was used to annotate biomedical terms from the following BabyCenter.com public online health community discussion boards:

• Postpartum Depression, Anxiety and Related Topics [Internet]. BabyCenter Community. (cited 2018May9)
• Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Anxiety Support Group [Internet]. BabyCenter Community. (cited 2018May9)
• POSTPARTUM ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUP [Internet]. BabyCenter Community. (cited 2018May9)

1. Demner-Fushman D, Rogers WJ, Aronson AR. MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2017 Jan 27;24(4):841-4.

License and Citation

Data can be used as-is under the MIT License attached to the repository. Please cite this article if using this data set:

Chowdhuri S, McCrea S, Fushman DD, Taylor CO. Extracting Biomedical Terms from Postpartum Depression Online Health Communities. AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings. 2019;2019:592.