Table 14.

Comparison of ROUGE-1 recall and F-scores (Twitter-specific tags, emoticons, hashtags, mentions, urls, removed and standard rouge stemming(-m) and stopwords(-s) option) for MEDSUM (the proposed methodology) and the baseline method COWTS for prevention class

Event	MEDSUM		COWTS
	Recall	F-score	Recall	F-score
Ebola	0.4771	0.5195	0.4575	0.5109
MERS	0.4898	0.5393	0.4761	0.4811

For each evaluation metric, the result of better performing system has been boldfaced