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

Table 5.

Evaluation of the impact of different components

Relation Precision Harvested facts
Full pipeline Without Without Without Full pipeline Without Without Without
encyclopedic + document statistical consistency encyclopedic + document statistical consistency
scientific sources structure analysis reasoning scientific sources structure analysis reasoning
Affects 0.825 ±0.047 0.882 ±0.044 0.821 ±0.048 0.171 ±0.051 2,388 2,350 4,088 29,477
Aggravates 0.829 ±0.049 0.833 ±0.036 0.598 ±0.049 0.592 ±0.053 432 431 592 1,730
Alleviates 0.786 ±0.046 0.778 ±0.050 0.320 ±0.049 0.289 ±0.062 4,530 4,387 18,142 16,943
Causes 0.801 ±0.049 0.800 ±0.046 0.631 ±0.048 0.490 ±0.069 47,463 30,563 66,833 91,784
Complication 0.897 ±0.041 0.781 ±0.048 0.376 ±0.050 0.739 ±0.050 1,524 700 4,812 2,955
Contraindicates 0.961 ±0.030 0.914 ±0.043 0.122 ±0.049 0.630 ±0.059 1,808 365 26,298 15,279
CreatesRisk 0.720 ±0.040 0.750 ±0.044 0.386 ±0.047 0.406 ±0.067 18,508 17,282 77,158 48,159
Diagnoses 0.860 ±0.048 0.887 ±0.044 0.802 ±0.049 0.303 ±0.063 4,832 4,002 7,467 35,326
Interacts 0.965 ±0.034 0.858 ±0.046 0.953 ±0.047 0.941 ±0.049 164,912 392 200,935 187,201
IsSymptom 0.858 ±0.048 0.691 ±0.050 0.625 ±0.049 0.328 ±0.064 6,395 2,920 9,543 29,776
ReducesRisk 0.762 ±0.048 0.729 ±0.050 0.228 ±0.046 0.406 ±0.067 4,489 4,043 11,023 14,729
SideEffect 0.964 ±0.035 0.938 ±0.048 0.941 ±0.046 0.879 ±0.050 270,709 924 270,427 338,645
Treats 0.898 ±0.041 0.784 ±0.050 0.549 ±0.050 0.402 ±0.067 14,699 14,057 23,473 45,439
Aggregated 0.933 0.784 0.777 0.707 542,689 82,416 720,791 857,443

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