Research Article

Feature Engineering for Drug Name Recognition in Biomedical Texts: Feature Conjunction and Feature Selection

Table 5

Detailed comparisons between WBI and our system (%).

WBIOur system

Strict73.4069.8071.5088.3772.0179.36+7.86
Exact85.5081.3083.3093.3876.0983.85+0.55
Type76.7073.0074.8091.4174.4982.09+7.29
Partial87.7083.5085.6095.0877.4885.38āˆ’0.22

Drug (strict)73.6085.2079.0093.3588.0390.61+11.61
Brand (strict)81.0086.4083.60100.094.9297.39+13.79
Group (strict)79.2076.1077.6090.1576.7782.92+5.32
No-human (strict)31.409.1014.1090.918.2615.14+1.04