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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2015 Jul 22;58(Suppl):S67–S77. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.07.001

Table 5.

Smoking status in 2006 and 2014 corpora

Comparison of 2006 and 2014 for smoking status categories
Distribution of smoking status categories Performance on smoking status categories
% of 2006
corpus
% of 2014
corpus
Top 2006 F1
scores
Top 2014 F1
scores
Past 9.3 20.1 Past 0.67 .8869
Current 9.2 7.0 Current 0.82 .7143
Non-smoker (never
smoked)
16.3 23.3 Non-smoker
(never smoked)
0.94 .9237
Smoker (ever smoked) 2.4 .9 Smoker (ever
smoked)
0.4 0
Unknown 62.7 47.1 Unknown 0.96 .9688
Unspecified
(no consensus reached
for gold standard)
- 1.6 - -