Table 7.

Performance comparison of masking input methods

Method	Accuracy	Precision	Recall	F1-score
Default	*0.700 **(0.018)	0.646 (0.019)	0.647 (0.016)	0.642 (0.013)
Entity Marker–Entity Start	0.857 (0.012)	0.825 (0.029)	0.836 (0.007)	0.828 (0.015)
Masked Input	0.844 (0.013)	0.811 (0.023)	0.826 (0.011)	0.817 (0.012)
Two Masked Sentence Input	0.866 (0.014)	0.837 (0.018)	0.847 (0.013)	0.840 (0.014)
Two Sentence Entity Token Input	0.865 (0.012)	0.839 (0.019)	0.845 (0.014)	0.840 (0.015)

The best scores are in bold

^*Mean

^**Standard deviation