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BMC Bioinformatics

Table 4 Comparison of different experimental conditions for bm25 and the Lucene ranking algorithm.

Model	Metric	Comparison
bm25	MAP	Span (max) + Article, Span (max) >> Abstract, Article
	P20	Span (max) + Article, Span (max), Abstract >> Article
	IP@R50	Span (max) + Article >> Abstract, Article; Span (max) >> Abstract
Lucene	MAP	Span (max) + Article >> Span (max), Article >> Abstract
	P20	Span (max) + Article > Span (max), Article; Article > Abstract
	IP@R50	Span (max) + Article > Span (max), Article >> Abstract

A >> B indicates that A is significantly better than B (p < 0.01); A > B indicates that A is significantly better than B (p < 0.05);

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