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The READ-BioMed Team in LivingNER Task 1 (2022): Adaptation of an English Annotation System to Spanish

We describe the work of the READ-BioMed team for the preparation of a submission to the LivingNER Species Named Entity Recognition (NER) Task (Task 1) in 2022. We had previously developed a system for named entity recognition for identifying biomedical concepts in MEDLINE citations written in the English language. We adapted this system to process the challenge data, to process reports written in the Spanish language. We show that minimal adaptation of our methodology was required to perform named entity recognition in the Spanish language, given the availability of pre-trained language models for Spanish, in conjunction with the LivingNER training data.