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Table 8 Performance of the hierarchical SVM classifiers at Levels 2 and 3.

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

Level 1

Assigned by expert

Level 2: Correct predictions

Level 2: Correct predictions (%)

Level 3: Correct predictions

Level 3: Correct predictions (%)

Allergy

12

11

91.7%

9

75.0%

Autoimmunity

59

58

98.3%

48

81.4%

Infectious Disease

104

98

94.2%

91

87.5%

Transplantation

9

n/a

n/a

8

88.9%

Subtotal

184

167

95.4%

156

84.8%

Cancer

45

n/a

n/a

32

71.1%

HIV

35

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Other

23

19

82.6%

19

82.6%

Subtotal

103

19

82.6%

51

75.0%

Total

287

186

93.9%

207

82.1%

  1. Transplantation and Cancer do not receive Level 2 category assignments. HIV does not receive Level 2 or 3 category assignments.