Cost sensitive hierarchical document classification to triage PubMed abstracts for manual curation

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 4 Performance comparison of non-hierarchical and hierarchical SVM classifiers.

Category	Number of curatable abstracts	Non-hierarchical AUC	Hierarchical AUC
Beta-Amyloid	213	.994	.998
Diabetes	443	.997	.998
General Autoimmune	1311	.967	.987
Lupus	704	.975	.988
Multiple Sclerosis	957	.982	.990
Myasthenia Gravis	221	.983	.992
Rheumatoid Arthritis	501	.983	.990

AUC values from the non-hierarchical and hierarchical Autoimmunity category SVM classifiers.

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