Table 4:
Performance for predicting an article’s exact MeSH terms using the rule-base system, run on both the automatically extracted spans and the expert-provided test spans.
| Strict | Precision | Recall |
|---|---|---|
| Extracted spans | 0.26 | 0.24 |
| Expert spans | 0.23 | 0.26 |
| Relaxed | Precision | Recall |
| Extracted spans | 0.32 | 0.34 |
| Expert spans | 0.31 | 0.34 |