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Table 3 Best performing parameter combinations for CL and GO subsections

From: Large-scale biomedical concept recognition: an evaluation of current automatic annotators and their parameters

Cell Type Ontology (CL)

NCBO Annotator

 

MetaMap

 

ConceptMapper

 

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

wholeWordOnly

YES

model

ANY

searchStrategy

CONTIGUOUS

filterNumber

ANY

gaps

NONE

caseMatch

INSENSITIVE

stopWords

ANY

wordOrder

ORDER MATTERS

stemmer

Porter/BioLemmatizer

SWCaseSensitive

ANY

acronymAbb

DEFAULT/UNIQUE

stopWords

NONE

minTermSize

ONE/THREE

derivationalVariants

ALL

orderIndLookup

OFF

withSynonyms

YES

scoreFilter

0

findAllMatches

NO

  

minTermSize

1/3

synonyms

EXACT ONLY

Gene Ontology - Cellular Component (GO_CC)

NCBO Annotator

 

MetaMap

 

ConceptMapper

 

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

wholeWordOnly

YES

model

ANY

searchStrategy

CONTIGUOUS

filterNumber

ANY

gaps

NONE

caseMatch

INSENSITIVE

stopWords

ANY

wordOrder

ORDER MATTERS

stemmer

Porter

SWCaseSensitive

ANY

acronymAbb

DEFAULT/UNIQUE

stopWords

NONE

minTermSize

ONE/THREE

derivationalVariants

ANY

orderIndLookup

OFF

withSynonyms

ANY

scoreFilter

0/600

findAllMatches

NO

  

minTermSize

1/3

synonyms

EXACT ONLY

Gene Ontology - Molecular Function (GO_MF)

NCBO Annotator

 

MetaMap

 

ConceptMapper

 

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

wholeWordOnly

NO

model

ANY

searchStrategy

CONTIGUOUS

filterNumber

ANY

gaps

NONE

caseMatch

ANY

stopWords

ANY

wordOrder

ORDER MATTERS

stemmer

BioLemmatizer

SWCaseSensitive

ANY

acronymAbb

DEFAULT/UNIQUE

stopWords

NONE

minTermSize

ANY

derivationalVariants

ANY

orderIndLookup

OFF

withSynonyms

NO

scoreFilter

0/600

findAllMatches

NO

  

minTermSize

1/3

synonyms

EXACT ONLY

Gene Ontology - Biological Process (GO_BP)

NCBO Annotator

 

MetaMap

 

ConceptMapper

 

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

Parameter

Value

wholeWordOnly

YES

model

ANY

searchStrategy

CONTIGUOUS

filterNumber

ANY

gaps

NONE

caseMatch

INSENSITIVE

stopWords

ANY

wordOrder

ORDER MATTERS

stemmer

Porter

SWCaseSensitive

ANY

acronymAbb

ANY

stopWords

NONE

minTermSize

ANY

derivationalVariants

ADJ NOUN VARS

orderIndLookup

OFF

withSynonyms

YES

scoreFilter

0

findAllMatches

NO

  

minTermSize

5

synonyms

ALL

  1. Suggested parameters to use that correspond to best score on CRAFT. Parameters where choices don’t seem to make a difference in performance are represented as “ANY”.