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Table 3 Individual pattern results and example matches (†: suggested in Yu et al [12]; *erroneous term pair; terms identified)

From: Synonym set extraction from the biomedical literature by lexical pattern discovery

Pattern

Precision

Recall

F-Measure

* of # (* * * #) * *

63.6 ± 10.5%

17.3 ± 4.4%

27.2 ± 6.0%

 

overview of avian influenza (a.k.a. bird flu) and phases

# (#)†

79.4 ± 11.4%

13.4 ± 3.9%

22.9 ± 6.0%

 

community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA)

of * # (* #) * *

65.1 ± 11.8%

13.9 ± 4.0%

22.9 ± 6.0%

 

of non-severe acute respiratory syndrome (Non-SARS)-related human

and # * (# *

75.0 ± 11.8%

13.4 ± 4.0%

22.7 ± 6.0%

 

and hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) and

*, * # * (# * *

60.0 ± 11.9%

13.4 ± 4.0%

21.9 ± 5.8%

 

septicemia, anthrax, swine fever (hog cholera), and

against # (* #

64.0 ± 15.9%

7.9 ± 3.1%

14.1 ± 5.2%

 

against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (or ETEC

prevalence of # * #

26.9 ± 8.8%

8.9 ± 3.3%

13.4 ± 4.7%

 

*prevalence of FeLV and FIV prevalence of paratuberculosis (ie, Johne's Disease)

patients with # * * * * # * *

12.8 ± 5.0%

7.4 ± 3.0%

9.4 ± 3.7%

 

patients with HTLV-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP)

* * # * known as #†

20.0 ± 33.8%

0.5 ± 0.8%

1.0 ± 1.6%

 

*an atypical pneumonia, also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome

#/#†

25.0 ± 21.4%

1.5 ± 1.4%

2.8 ± 2.6%

 

*HIV/AIDS HTLV-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis

#, #†

1.7 ± 0.2%

63.4 ± 5.6%

3.3 ± 0.3%

 

*measles,mumps, rubella vaccine due to efforts to eradicate poliomyelitis, polio cases have fallen