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Table 6 Examples of automatically generated synsets

From: Synonym set extraction from the biomedical literature by lexical pattern discovery

["CA-MRSA", "community-acquired MRSA", "methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus", "MRSA", "methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus" ] – MoT/PoI errors

["Litopenaeus vannamei", "shrimp" ] – Hypernym relations

["Yersinia pestis", "Plague" ] – Disease/Agent errors

["dengue shock syndrome", "DHF", "dengue hemorrhagic fever", "dengue", "dengue fever" ] – Variant terms

["rubella", "mumps", "measles" ] – Other relation (there is a widely-used triple vaccine for these diseases)