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. 2021 Dec 31;11(12):e053808. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053808

Table 2.

Attribute agreements

Positive document for suicidality Non-relevant document for suicidality Non-suicidal documents Positive mention of self-harm Relevant mention of self-harm Negative mention of self-harm
Precision 0.80 0.98 0.58 0.96 0.89 0.59
Recall 0.82 0.92 0.87 0.91 0.72 0.79
F1-score 0.81 0.95 0.70 0.94 0.80 0.68
No of documents/mentions 114 106 55 528 385 86

Attribute agreements reflect the comparison of the NLP tool output to the gold standard set of manually annotated documents. annotations are document level for suicidality and mention-level for self-harm. The results from the study that developed and evaluated the suicidality tool reported 0.58–0.72 precision, 0.70–0.87 for recall and 0.69–0.75 F1-score35 and the results from the study that developed and evaluated the self-harm tool reported 0.88–0.96 precision, 0.88–0.96 recall and 0.88–0.96 F1 score.40

NLP, natural language processing.