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Table 8 Distribution of semantic groups in the MSH WSD and NLM WSD datasets

From: Exploiting MeSH indexing in MEDLINE to generate a data set for word sense disambiguation

Semantic Group(s)

NLM WSD

MSH WSD

 

frequency

percentage

frequency

percentage

Activities & Behaviors

7

0.0619

5

0.0121

Anatomy

4

0.0354

44

0.1063

Chemicals & Drugs

3

0.0265

118

0.2850

Concepts & Ideas

24

0.2124

10

0.0242

Devices

1

0.0088

6

0.0145

Disorders

13

0.1150

100

0.2415

Living Beings

7

0.0619

39

0.0942

Objects

2

0.0177

3

0.0072

Occupations

3

0.0265

3

0.0072

Phenomena

9

0.0796

4

0.0097

Physiology

20

0.1770

15

0.0362

Procedures

20

0.1770

28

0.0676

Genes & Molecular Sequences

0

0

8

0.0193

Geographic Areas

0

0

23

0.0556

Organizations

0

0

5

0.0121

Chemicals & Drugs/Objects

0

0

2

0.0048

Objects/Organizations

0

0

1

0.0024