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Table 4 Overview of error categories per model

From: Negation detection in Dutch clinical texts: an evaluation of rule-based and machine learning methods

 

Rule-based

biLSTM

RobBERT

False positives

   

Ambiguous

0

0%

14

16%

11

13%

Annotation error

11

3%

5

6%

13

15%

Minus

0

0%

8

9%

0

0%

Negation of different term

119

36%

24

27%

32

38%

Other

1

0%

13

14%

16

19%

Punctuation

0

0%

5

6%

1

1%

Scope

136

41%

6

7%

0

0%

Speculation

50

15%

10

11%

8

9%

Uncommon negation

0

0%

5

6%

0

0%

Wrong modality

14

4%

0

0%

4

5%

Total

331

 

90

 

85

 

False negatives

   

Ambiguous

0

0%

18

11%

8

7%

Annotation error

20

11%

7

4%

15

14%

Minus

51

27%

13

8%

23

21%

Negation of different term

2

1%

0

0%

0

0%

Other

29

15%

14

9%

15

14%

Punctuation

13

7%

20

12%

1

1%

Scope

0

0%

32

20%

8

7%

Speculation

8

4%

13

8%

20

18%

Uncommon negation

60

32%

39

24%

17

16%

Wrong modality

6

3%

6

4%

2

2%

Total

189

 

162

 

109

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