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. 2019 Jan 16;42(1):147–156. doi: 10.1007/s40264-018-0763-y

Table 2.

Performance metrics of the CRF NER model on the 213 final evaluation documents

Label Standard resources Extended resources
Precision Recall F1 Precision Recall F1
Route 94.4 87.4 90.8 94.8 89.5 92.1
Drug 90.1 83.7 86.8 91.1 86.1 88.6
Dose 89.2 83.5 86.3 89.8 85.4 87.5
Frequency 85.2 79.2 82.1 88.7 83.2 85.8
Severity 86.8 77.3 81.8 87.3 75.7 81.0
SSLIF 79.1 80.2 79.7 80.1 80.4 80.2
Duration 75.4 69.1 72.2 74.6 68.4 71.4
ADE 75.7 32.5 45.5 75.8 38.5 51.1
Indication 63.2 33.8 44.1 67.0 38.7 49.1
Overall micro 82.8 76.7 79.6 83.8 78.1 80.9

ADE adverse drug event, CRF conditional random field, NER named entity recognition, SSLIF other signs, symptoms, and diagnoses