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J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:32-36 doi:10.1197/jamia.M2935
  • The Practice of Informatics

Evaluating Relevance Ranking Strategies for MEDLINE Retrieval

Table 7

Comparing Retrieval Effectiveness of Different Relevance Levels in the Sentence-level co-occurrence Strategy

Relevance level Retrieved Relevant Precision
L1 T and A and M 18 12 0.67
L2 T and A 69 42 0.61
L3 T and M 16 5 0.31
L4 A and M 48 24 0.50
L5 T 57 32 0.56
L6 A 501 191 0.38
L7 M 1433 167 0.12
L8 T or A or M 1021 188 0.18
Total 3163 661
  • The second and third columns show the counts of retrieved and relevant documents, respectively. The computed precisions in the last column compare the retrieval effectiveness between different relevance levels. Same abbreviations used as in Table 2.

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