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. 2013 Jan-Feb;20(1):84–94. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001012

Table 3.

Performance of humans versus automated systems (per-tag and overall precision (P), recall (R) and F value (F))

Performance of humans versus automated systems
Annotator 3 Annotator 4 MIST2 MCRF2
P R F P R F P R F P R F
AGE 99.51 91.93 95.57 94.59 94.17 94.38 95.50 95.07 95.28 97.21 93.72 95.43
DATE 98.17 97.78 97.97 98.56 97.62 98.09 96.73 98.57 97.65 97.86 97.78 97.82
ID 93.67 85.06 89.16 88.37 87.36 87.86 88.89 88.89 88.89 95.45 93.33 94.38
INST 78.33 85.98 81.98 84.52 86.59 85.54 90.12 89.02 89.57 93.33 85.37 89.17
LOC 97.78 93.62 95.65 86.67 82.98 84.78 66.67 55.32 60.47 82.86 61.70 70.73
NAME 98.92 94.93 96.88 99.08 97.92 98.50 93.52 95.71 94.60 95.49 96.36 95.92
OTH 68.77 65.55 67.12 47.28 81.27 59.78 83.27 76.59 79.79 87.70 71.57 78.82
PH 96.92 98.44 97.67 96.92 98.44 97.67 88.41 95.31 91.73 95.31 95.31 95.31
All 93.95 92.15 93.04 88.45 94.55 91.40 93.31 93.66 93.49 95.73 92.91 94.30
Anno3 vs Anno4 Anno3 vs MCRF2 Anno4 vs MCRF2 Anno3 vs MIST2 Anno4 vs MIST2 Anno3 vs gold standard Anno4 vs gold standard MCRF2 vs gold standard MIST2 vs gold standard
p Value p Value p Value p Value p Value p Value p Value p Value p Value
AGE 0.5226 0.9628 0.6493 0.9368 0.6516 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
DATE 0.881 0.7514 0.7 0.4288 0.555 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
ID 0.7526 0.1885 0.1428 0.9377 0.8021 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
INST 0.2785 *0.0107 0.3347 *0.0078 0.2949 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
LOC 0.1579 *0.0078 0.1891 *0.0001 *0.021 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
NAME *0.0221 0.2246 *0.0026 *0.0093 *0.0002 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
OTH 0.0506 *0.0029 *0.0001 *0.0006 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
PH 1 0.1299 0.1231 *0.0414 *0.0492 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001
All *0.0169 0.054 *0.0002 0.5088 *0.0105 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001 *0.0001

Statistical significance tests between F values obtained by humans versus systems (*indicates statistical significance (p<0.05), Anno3=annotator 3, Anno4=annotator 4).

INST, institution; LOC, location; OTH, other; PH, phone.