An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 14 Evaluation measures for the “exact” answers in Phase B of Task 1b

Question	Participant	Evaluation measures
type	response
yes/no	yes or no	accuracy
factoid	up to 5 entity names	strict and lenient accuracy, *MRR*
list	a list of entity names	mean precision, recall, F -measure

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