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Table 5 Ablation study results

From: Improving the recall of biomedical named entity recognition with label re-correction and knowledge distillation

Model

P (%)

R (%)

F (%)

Our best (BiLSTM-CRF)

90.71

89.99

90.35

w/o label re-correction

91.34

80.76

85.73**

w/o CDRC

90.48

89.14

89.81*

w/o CDRA

90.17

89.55

89.86**

  1. The highest scores are highlighted in bold
  2. w/o label re-correction: we train the teachers on the two weakly labeled datasets CDWC and CDWA rather than CDRC and CDRA
  3. w/o CDRC: we train a single teacher without CDRC (i.e. only with CDRA)
  4. w/o CDRA: we train a single teacher without CDRA (i.e. only with CDRC)
  5. the marker * and ** represent P value < 0.05 and P value < 0.01, respectively, using pairwise t-test against our best (BiLSTM-CRF). Firstly, the formula of the pairwise t-test is defined as the sum of the differences of each pair divided by the square root of n times the sum of the differences squared minus the sum of the squared differences, overall n − 1. n is the number of pair. Then in this paper we use a two-tailed test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values