The Robotic-Surgery Propositional Bank (dataset)

The Robotic-Surgery Propositional Bank is the first robotic-surgery procedural corpus, annotated with PropBank-style semantic labels. Starting from the original PropBank framebank, we enriched it by adding new lemmas, frames and semantic roles required to cover missing information in general English but needed in procedural surgical language, releasing the Robotic-Surgery Procedural Framebank (RSPF). We then collected from robotic-surgery textbooks as-is sentences for a total of 32,448 tokens, and we annotated them with RSPF labels. We so obtained and publicly released the first annotated corpus of the robotic-surgical domain that can be used to foster further research on language understanding and procedural entities and relations extraction from clinical and surgical scientific literature. The construction of the framebank is described in the following associated publication: The Robotic Surgery Procedural Framebank (Marco Bombieri, Marco Rospocher, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Paolo Fiorini), In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3950–3959, European Language Resources Association (2022) URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.420.pdf