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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2011 Mar 21;44(Suppl 1):S39–S43. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.03.007

Table 1.

Precision and recall obtained using MEDLINE annotation’s gold standard for Annotator and MetaMap programs and original dataset submitter annotations.

Method Precision (%) Recall (%) Annotated entries (%) Average MeSH annotation per entry
Annotator 32.96 1.83 9311 (99.9%) 5.3
MetaMap 35.37 2.45 9315 (99.9%) 8.1
User Submitted 97.58 0.59 203 (2.2%) 1.5