This paper describes a method for annotation of epidemiological information in animal disease-related news articles. The annotation guidelines are generic and aim to embrace all animal or zoonotic infectious diseases, regardless of the pathogen involved or its way of transmission (e.g. vector-borne, airborne, by contact). The framework relies on the successive annotation of all the sentences from a news article. The annotator evaluates the sentences in a specific epidemiological context, corresponding to the publication of the news article.

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动物疾病相关新闻中的流行病学信息注释：准则

本文介绍了一种在动物疾病相关新闻中标注流行病学信息的方法。注释指南是通用的，旨在涵盖所有动物或人畜共患的传染病，而不论涉及的病原体或其传播方式（例如，媒介传播，空气传播，接触传播）。该框架依赖于新闻文章中所有句子的连续注释。注释者在特定流行病学背景下评估句子，这与新闻文章的发布相对应。