Research Article

Exploring the Unexplored: Identifying Implicit and Indirect Descriptions of Biomedical Terminologies Based on Multifaceted Weighting Combinations

Table 3

Results of accumulative combinations of proposed weighting schemes (: , : , : , : , : “ with ,” and : “ with ”).

Biomedical terms (15 terms having more than 20 indirect expressions in the collection)Number of entire indirect expressions ()⁢Cumulative results by combining each weighting scheme step by step (top 10)Total precision (ALL/)

(max. 10)

(max. 20)

(max. 30)

(max. 40)

(max. 50)
ALL
(max. 60)

Bronchitis, chronic 661017 (+7)26 (+9)32 (+6)39 (+7)43 (+4)0.6515
Middle cerebral artery 601019 (+9)28 (+9)32 (+4)34 (+2)38 (+4)0.6333
Erythrocytes 541016 (+6)19 (+3)19 (+0)26 (+7)32 (+6)0.5926
Leukocytes 491015 (+5)19 (+4)24 (+5)25 (+1)26 (+1)0.5306
Hearing loss, bilateral 4759 (+4)11 (+2)15 (+4)15 (+0)19 (+4)0.4043
Cellular structures 281015 (+5)17 (+2)19 (+2)24 (+5)26 (+1)0.9286
Lymphocytes 271018 (+8)22 (+4)25 (+3)25 (+0)25 (+0)0.9259
Immune sera 26913 (+4)17 (+4)19 (+2)23 (+4)23 (+0)0.8846
Neoplasms 2526 (+4)6 (+0)14 (+8)14 (+0)14 (+0)0.5600
Pain, postoperative 24513 (+8)18 (+5)20 (+2)21 (+1)21 (+0)0.8750
Neisseria meningitidis 2146 (+2)7 (+1)7 (+0)7 (+0)7 (+0)0.3333
Disease attributes 20712 (+5)16 (+4)17 (+1)18 (+1)18 (+0)0.9000
Lung neoplasms 20712 (+5)15 (+3)18 (+3)19 (+1)20 (+1)1.0000
Meningeal arteries 20814 (+6)17 (+3)17 (+0)17 (+0)18 (+1)0.9000
Parasympathetic nervous system 201017 (+7)18 (+1)19 (+1)20 (+1)20 (+0)1.0000

Total507117
(0.2308)
202 (+85)  (0.3984)256 (+54)  (0.5049)297 (+41)  (0.5858)327 (+30)  (0.6450)350 (+23)  (0.6903)0.7413