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Table 10 Numbers of proposed corrections (between brackets the number by query) at different thresholds with the Stoilos function combined with the Levenshtein edit distance

From: Matching health information seekers' queries to medical terms

  

Levenshtein

  

< 0.05

< 0.1

< 0.15

< 0.2

< 0.3

< 0.4

< 0.5

< 0.6

< 0.7

< 08

< 0.9

Stoilos

> 0.1

6 (0.03)

63 (0.38)

107 (0.65)

165 (1.01)

538 (3.30)

2,188 (13.42)

6,563 (40.20)

18,274 (112.11)

30,303 (185.90)

39,456 (242.06)

42,483 (260.63)

 

> 0.2

6 (0.03)

63 (0.38)

107 (0.65)

165 (1.01)

537 (3.29)

2,118 (12.99)

5,806 (35.61)

13,053 (80.79)

18,790 (115.27)

22,395 (137.39)

23,576 (144.63)

 

> 0.3

6 (0.03)

63 (0.38)

107 (0.65)

165 (1.01)

534 (3.27)

1,990 (12.20)

4,680 (28.71)

8,352 (51.23)

10,909 (66.92)

12,328 (75.63)

12,709 (77.96)

 

> 0.4

6 (0.03)

63 (0.38)

107 (0.65)

165 (1.01)

526 (3.22)

1,789 (10.97)

3,548 (21.76)

5,262 (32.28)

6,236 (38.25)

6,749 (41.40)

6,864 (42.11)

 

> 0.5

6 (0.03)

63 (0.38)

107 (0.65)

164 (1.00)

492 (4.92)

1,397 (8.57)

2,313 (14.19)

2,910 (17.85)

3,268 (20.04)

3,435 (21.07)

3,478 (21.33)

 

> 0.6

6 (0.03

63 (0.38)

107 (0.65)

162 (0.99)

431 (2.64)

864 (5.30)

1,199 (7.35)

1,431 (8.77)

1,562 (9.58)

1,617 (9.92)

1,625 (9.96)

 

> 0.7

6 (0.03)

63 (0.38)

106 (0.65)

160 (0.98)

292 (1.79)

448 (2.74)

556 (3.41)

653 (4.0)

685 (4.20)

690 (4.23)

692 (4.24)

 

> 0.8

6 (0.03)

62 (0.38)

97 (0.59)

138 (0.84)

182 (1.11)

231 (1.41)

275 (1.68)

288 (1.76)

290 (1.77)

293 (1.79)

294 (1.80)

 

> 0.9

6 (0.03)

52 (0.31)

79 (0.48)

95 (0.58)

103 (0.63)

105 (0.64)

106 (0.65)

106 (0.65)

106 (0.65)

108 (0.66)

108 (0.66)