Medical-FLAVORS-AECC: Spanish Oncological Metaphors Dataset

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Metaphors play a central role in cancer narratives, helping patients and practitioners articulate complex experiences and technical concepts. While cancer metaphors in English have been extensively studied, Spanish remains underexplored in this regard, despite its global importance and rich cultural variation. This paper presents a new dataset of Spanish cancer metaphors designed to address these gaps. The resource comprises over 80K annotated words drawn from diverse forum posts, with detailed documentation of lexical units, contextual versus basic meanings, and inter-annotator agreements. To construct the dataset, we adapted the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) for Spanish medical discourse, proposing methodological refinements to challenges such as defining lexical units or domain-specific Basic Meaning labels.

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