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CREST is a collection of clinical guidelines annotated with instances of recommendations, each labeled with their strength of importance as specified by their authors. As data is drawn from many disparate authors, a unified scheme for labelling importance is defined, together with a mapping for each guideline.

For a detailed description of the corpus, please see the paper by Read, Velldal, Cavazza & Georg presented at LREC 2016, A Corpus of Clinical Practice Guidelines Annotated with the Importance of Recommendations:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/521.html

 

The data is available for download from the following link:
https://www.velldal.net/erik/data/crest.tgz

The archive `crest.tgz’ contains the following:

• partitions.xml
  The assignment of guidelines used in experiments described in the paper above, with guideline identifiers assigned to either heldout or development partitions (together with development’s folds for cross-validation).
• primary/
  HTML acquired from www.guidelines.gov (named according to the guideline identifier).
• schemes.xml
  The recommendation strength schemes used by individual guidelines, which also contain attributes mapping to the unified scheme described in the paper above.
• xml/
  XML encoding of the recommendations section in guidelines, with explicit labels of importance removed from the text and instead indicated with XML attributes (named according to the guideline identifier).
• README
  The same information as found on this page.

 

Please use the following citation when referencing the data:

@InProceedings{ReaVelCavGeo16,
  author = {Jonathon Read and Erik Velldal and 
            Marc Cavazza and Gersende Georg},
  title = {A Corpus of Clinical Practice Guidelines Annotated with the
           Importance of Recommendations},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on 
               Language Resources and Evaluation},
  pages = {1724--1731},
  year = {2016},
  address = {Portorož, Slovenia}
}