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. 2020 Dec 18;8:515347. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.515347

Table 5.

Results of the ten testing sets using SVM, CatBoost, and BERT.

No. Criterion Classifiers Recall Precision F1
1 Costs SVM 79.26 83.69 72.43
CatBoost 83.7 82.99 81.94
BERT 74.07 69.89 70.99
2 Benefits SVM 70.15 68.68 64.56
CatBoost 70.15 67.98 66.8
BERT 71.64 70.07 69.98
3 Harms SVM 64.93 62.49 62.61
CatBoost 69.4 68.36 65.29
BERT 64.93 64.76 64.84
4 Quality of the evidence SVM 67.41 66.67 65.39
CatBoost 68.15 67.42 66.6
BERT 64.44 63.51 63.61
5 Disease-mongering SVM 82.96 68.83 75.24
CatBoost 81.48 68.62 74.5
BERT 82.96 68.83 75.24
6 Identify conflicts of interest SVM 73.33 73.33 73.33
CatBoost 76.3 76.27 76.27
BERT 58.52 58.44 57.13
7 Compare with existing alternative SVM 64.71 64.45 63.86
CatBoost 58.09 57.16 55.17
BERT 49.26 49.35 49.31
8 Availability of the treatment SVM 68.42 66.48 64.25
CatBoost 67.67 65.63 65.44
BERT 66.17 62.78 59.4
9 Novelty of the approach SVM 71.32 70.03 61.3
CatBoost 73.53 71.98 68.09
BERT 70.59 49.83 58.42
10 Relying on a news release SVM 94.12 88.58 91.27
CatBoost 95.59 95.79 94.32
BERT 94.12 88.58 91.27