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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Proc Conf. 2021 Jun;2021:4794–4811. doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.382

Table 5:

Number of documents necessary to cover all relevant UMLS entities—present in the summary— according to three different ordering strategies. FORWARD orders the notes chronologically, BACKWARD the reverse, and GREEDY ORACLE examines notes in order of decreasing entity overlap with the target.

Avg Notes to Read
Ordering Number Percent
FORWARD 8.5 0.80
BACKWARD 7.8 0.73
GREEDY ORACLE 5.0 0.50