Table 7 Comparison of the best results using exact and relaxed evaluation
From: Various criteria in the evaluation of biomedical named entity recognition
Evaluation criterion | NE categories | Matching criterion | # of NE classes | Best system | Best performance(%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Precision | Recall | F-score |
Exact | protein, DNA, RNA, cell line, cell type | exact match | 5 | Zho [22] | 69.4 | 76.0 | 72.6 |
Relaxed | macromolecule (Protein + DNA + RNA), Cell (cell line + cell type) | right match | 2 | Fin [15] | 77.9 | 85.6 | 81.5 |