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J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:576-586 doi:10.1197/jamia.M1757
  • Original Investigation

ALICE: An Algorithm to Extract Abbreviations from MEDLINE

Table 10

Results Obtained Using the Modified EVALUATION Corpus

Algorithm Recall (%) Precision (%) F-measure
Larkey et al. (Canonical) 1 2 1
Larkey et al. (Canonical/Contextual) 1 2 1
Larkey et al. (Simple Canonical) 1 2 1
Chang et al. (score = 0.88) 25 93 39
Chang et al. (score = 0.14) 75 80 77
Chang et al. (score = 0.03) 80 78 79
Schwartz and Hearst 80 83 81
ALICE 82 86 84

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