Research Article
A Learning-Based Approach for Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation
Table 6
Comparison of our results with the best reported results from recent reported techniques.
| Word | Baseline (mfs) | Previous Results | Our method (EV1) | Stevenson et al. [1] | Agirre et al. [2] |
Jimeno-Yepes and Aronson [4] | Joshi-2005 | McInnes 2007 | Stevenson-2008 | Single | Subset | Full | NB | CombSW | CombV |
| Adjustment | 67 | 71 | 70 | 74 | | 33.3 | 35.5 | 76.3 | 69 | 53.9 | 99 | Blood pressure | 54 | 53 | 46 | 46 | 53.0 | 50 | 48 | 57.0 | 38 | 44 | 98 | Cold | 91 | 90 | 89 | 88 | 32.6 | 26.3 | 28.4 | 92.6 | 39 | 79 | 94 | Condition | 98 | — | 89 | 89 | 95.7 | 39.1 | 48.9 | 97.8 | 78 | 69 | 95 | Culture | 89 | — | 94 | 95 | | 33 | 77 | 93.0 | 100 | 54 | 87 | Degree | 97 | 89 | 79 | 95 | | 95.4 | 93.8 | 96.9 | 88 | 82 | 93 | Evaluation | 50 | 69 | 73 | 81 | 59 | 54 | 50 | 78.0 | 52 | 50 | 98 | Extraction | 94 | 84 | 86 | 85 | | 23 | 27.6 | 94.3 | 98 | 86 | 94 | Failure | 86 | — | 73 | 67 | | 27.6 | 72.4 | 86.2 | 86 | 100 | 83 | Fat | 97 | 84 | 77 | 84 | 56.2 | 63 | 95.9 | 97.3 | 91 | 84 | 93 | Ganglion | 93 | — | 94 | 96 | 66 | 77 | 64 | 95.0 | 88 | 86 | 93 | Glucose | 91 | — | 90 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 90 | 91.0 | 78 | 39 | 90 | Growth | 63 | 71 | 69 | 68 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 73.0 | 55 | 66 | 92 | Immune suppression | 59 | 80 | 75 | 80 | 64 | 59 | 62 | 79.0 | 60 | 65 | 98 | Implantation | 83 | 94 | 92 | 93 | 75 | 84.7 | 84.7 | 98.0 | 94 | 97 | 91 | Japanese | 92 | 77 | 76 | 75 | 70.9 | 70.9 | 64.6 | 92.4 | 63 | 94 | 92 | Lead | 93 | 89 | 90 | 94 | 93.1 | 93.1 | 93.1 | 93.1 | 83 | 86 | 84 | Man | 63 | 89 | 80 | 90 | 61.5 | 34.8 | 44.6 | 87.0 | 65 | 42 | 98 | Mosaic | 54 | 87 | 75 | 87 | | 60.8 | 66 | 82.5 | 84 | 72 | 99 | Nutrition | 51 | 52 | 49 | 54 | | 33.7 | 32.6 | 55.1 | 45 | 43 | 94 | Pathology | 86 | 85 | 84 | 85 | | 34.3 | 28.3 | 85.9 | 76 | 83 | 79 | Radiation | 62 | 82 | 81 | 84 | 58.2 | 53.1 | 53.1 | 83.7 | 76 | 76 | 82 | Reduction | 82 | 91 | 92 | 89 | 36.4 | 54.5 | 54.5 | 81.8 | 100 | 82 | 63 | Repair | 76 | 87 | 93 | 88 | 63.2 | 72.1 | 76.5 | 95.6 | 87 | 88 | 92 | Sex | 80 | 88 | 87 | 87 | 84 | 85 | 85 | 84.0 | 60 | 53 | 94 | Support | 80 | — | 91 | 89 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 80.0 | 100 | 90 | 67 | Surgery | 98 | — | 94 | 97 | 95.9 | 97 | 97 | 98.0 | 43 | 96 | 95 | Ultrasound | 84 | 92 | 85 | 90 | 84 | 84 | 83 | 85.0 | 81 | 83 | 93 | Variation | 80 | — | 91 | 95 | 85 | 80 | 75 | 91.0 | 65 | 86 | 86 | Weight | 55 | 83 | 79 | 81 | 56.6 | 56.6 | 56.6 | 84.9 | 66 | 68 | 83 | White | 54 | 79 | 74 | 76 | 68.9 | 67.8 | 63.3 | 81.1 | 57 | 58 | 100 |
| Average | 77.5 | 81.1 | 81.2 | 83.6 | 68.8 | 59.7 | 63.5 | 86.0 | 73.1 | 72.7 | 90.3 |
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