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. 2017 Jul 5;17(Suppl 2):67. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0468-7

Table 2.

Evaluation criteria for the three entity recognition tasks

Challenge Criterion Remarks
2010 Exact* Entities have the same boundary and same type.
Inexact Entities overlap and have the same type.
2012 Span* Entities overlap
Type Entities overlap and have the same type.
2014 Exact* Entities have the same boundary and same type.
Token “Exact” criterion at token-level.

*represents the primary evaluation criterion for each task