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Table 10 Performance comparison with or without including general terms

From: Identifying named entities from PubMed® for enriching semantic categories

Headword

Original evaluation

General terms excluded

 

Pattern 1

Pattern 2

Pattern 3

Pattern 1

Pattern 2

Pattern 3

Gene

91.0%

76.7%

90.0%

90.0%

73.0%

88.0%

Protein

91.0%

93.0%

91.0%

90.0%

89.0%

85.0%

Disease

93.9%

97.9%

99.0%

93.9%

96.4%

99.0%

Cell

95.2%

98.4%

95.0%

95.2%

71.4%

88.8%

Cells

97.4%

96.7%

98.6%

96.4%

90.0%

95.7%

  1. “General” indicates a term is valid, but the meaning is too general and not useful for enriching SemCat. Scores are the precisions averaged from three reviewers.