Table 3
Abbreviations in Medstract Gold Standard Missed*
| No. | Description | Example |
| 13 | “Abbreviation” and long form are synonyms. | apoptosis → programmed cell death |
| 7 | Abbreviation is outside parentheses. | |
| 3 | Best alignment score yields incorrect long form. | FasL → Fas and Fas ligand |
| 2 | Letters in abbreviation are out of order. | TH → helper T |
| 25 | TOTAL |
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↵* Our algorithm failed to find 25 of the 168 abbreviations in the Medstract gold standard. This table categorizes types of abbreviations and the number of each type missed.
