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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2017 Mar 18;69:1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.03.012

Table 4.

Topic classification performance measured by F score on different topic categories, with five classifiers. bsline: the system simply tags all sentences with all 11 labels; l-lda: the labeled LDA classifier; svm: the SVM classifier using bag of words as features; svm-e: the SVM classifier using word embedding as features; cnn: the convolutional neural network classifier

bsline l-lda svm svm-e cnn

Micro 19.3 54.4 55.8 58.3 65.4

ALTR 6.5 9.2 9.4 30.7 35.5
DAIL 12.5 30.1 28.8 46.4 48.1
DIAG 22.2 58.8 60.2 65.3 67.1
FIND 23.4 50.1 50.9 60.0 60.3
HSYS 17.5 45.4 41.1 55.3 57.7
MISC 35.7 76.2 75.8 71.4 78.1
NUTR 12.6 57.3 58.6 68.4 72.8
PERS 20.2 24.4 26.5 47.7 47.8
RSRC 11.9 48.0 48.3 55.2 61.1
TEST 6.3 27.6 26.1 47.9 52.6
TREA 37.5 65.7 66.0 64.2 73.6