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. 2009 Feb 10;9:10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-9-10

Table 4.

Five Way Cross-Validation Sentence Classification Results on Structured Abstracts: Using CRFs

With no windowed features With windowed features
Precision Recall F-score Precision Recall F-score

1575 abs, 21.2 k sents Accuracy = 86.30% Accuracy = 87.99%

Aim 0.99 0.99 0.99 1.00 0.99 1.00
Method 0.85 0.84 0.85 0.87 0.85 0.86
Intervention 0.86 0.80 0.83 0.88 0.82 0.85
Results 0.79 0.84 0.82 0.82 0.87 0.84
Conclusion 0.93 0.92 0.93 0.94 0.93 0.93

1740 abs, 22.9 k sents Accuracy = 95.17% Accuracy = 95.10%

Aim 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99
Method 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.96 0.97 0.97
Outcome Measure 0.90 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.86 0.88
Results 0.95 0.96 0.95 0.94 0.96 0.95
Conclusion 0.94 0.93 0.94 0.94 0.93 0.93

2280 abs, 29.8 k sents Accuracy = 86.74% Accuracy = 88.43%

Aim 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99
Method 0.85 0.86 0.85 0.87 0.87 0.87
Participants 0.86 0.79 0.82 0.89 0.80 0.84
Results 0.81 0.84 0.83 0.83 0.87 0.85
Conclusion 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.94 0.93 0.94

Sentence classification using CRFs into five classes, for each of the three classification problems. Results report using 15-fold cross validation for a system that uses no windowed features versus a system that uses windowed features.