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. 2015 May 14;16:157. doi: 10.1186/s12859-015-0549-5

Table 4.

Evaluation of different text genres

Relation Precision Harvested facts
Encyclopedic Scientific Encyclopedic + Encyclopedic + Encyclopedic Scientific Encyclopedic + Encyclopedic +
sources sources scientific scientific + sources sources scientific scientific +
sources social sources sources social sources
Affects 0.855 ±0.047 0.762 ±0.049 0.825 ±0.047 0.767 ±0.048 1,278 450 2,388 5,053
Aggravates 0.810 ±0.041 0.459 ±0.044 0.829 ±0.049 0.785 ±0.049 130 371 432 708
Alleviates 0.953 ±0.039 0.735 ±0.048 0.786 ±0.046 0.736 ±0.048 903 4,433 4,530 6,790
Causes 0.904 ±0.039 0.674 ±0.049 0.801 ±0.049 0.792 ±0.049 28,119 19,203 47,463 62,407
Complication 0.917 ±0.039 0.397 ±0.049 0.897 ±0.041 0.869 ±0.046 1,011 1,475 1,524 1,566
Contraindicates 0.874 ±0.048 0.710 ±0.000 0.961 ±0.030 0.908 ±0.048 512 49 1,808 1,831
CreatesRisk 0.878 ±0.047 0.569 ±0.049 0.720 ±0.040 0.620 ±0.049 4,407 24,695 18,508 32,211
Diagnoses 0.964 ±0.035 0.839 ±0.049 0.860 ±0.048 0.840 ±0.047 813 5,920 4,832 9,743
Interacts 0.964 ±0.035 0.709 ±0.000 0.965 ±0.034 0.957 ±0.034 164,912 103 164,912 164,912
IsSymptom 0.891 ±0.042 0.482 ±0.050 0.858 ±0.048 0.694 ±0.048 4,878 2,320 6,395 11,017
ReducesRisk 0.797 ±0.045 0.637 ±0.046 0.762 ±0.048 0.751 ±0.049 1,712 4,684 4,489 5,865
SideEffect 0.956 ±0.038 0.826 ±0.000 0.964 ±0.035 0.971 ±0.026 270,600 139 270,709 271,416
Treats 0.850 ±0.048 0.581 ±0.045 0.898 ±0.041 0.566 ±0.048 11,915 9,318 14,699 35,803
Aggregated 0.951 0.630 0.933 0.892 491,190 73,160 542,689 609,322

*Precision values are averaged and numbers of harvested facts are summed.