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. 2014 Feb 26;15:59. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-59

Table 7.

Best parameters for optimizing performance for precision or recall

High precision annotations
NCBO Annotator
 
MetaMap
 
ConceptMapper
 
Parameter
Value
Parameter
Value
Parameter
Value
wholeWordOnly
YES
model
STRICT
searchStrategy
CONTIGUOUS
filterNumber
ANY
gaps
NONE
caseMatch
SENSITIVE
stopWords
ANY
wordOrder
ORDER MATTERS
stemmer
NONE
SWCaseSensitive
ANY
acronymAbb
DEFAULT/UNIQUE
stopWords
NONE
minTermSize
THREE/FIVE
derivationalVariants
NONE
orderIndLookup
OFF
withSynonyms
NO
scoreFilter
1000
findAllMatches
NO
 
 
minTermSize
3/5
synonyms
EXACT ONLY
High recall annotations
NCBO Annotator
 
MetaMap
 
ConceptMapper
 
Parameter
Value
Parameter
Value
Parameter
Value
wholeWordOnly
NO
model
RELAXED
searchStrategy
SKIP ANY/ALLOW
filterNumber
ANY
gaps
ALLOW
caseMatch
IGNORE/INSENSITIVE
stopWords
ANY
wordOrder
IGNORE
stemmer
Porter/BioLemmatizer
SWCaseSensitive
ANY
acronymAbb
ALL
stopWords
PubMed
minTermSize
ONE/THREE
derivationalVariants
ALL/ADJ NOUN
orderIndLookup
ON
withSynonyms
YES
scoreFilter
0
findAllMatches
YES
    minTermSize 1/3 synonyms ALL