A Novel Approach towards Medical Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text

Table 7

Performance of the baseline system 1 based on professional drug dictionaries and the maximum matching algorithm between drug name characters and pinyin.

	Precision	Recall	F-measure
TCM drug name	49.2%	45.5%	47.3%
WM drug name	54.9%	49.1%	51.8%
All drug names	53.2%	48.0%	50.5%

Note: to the nearest 0.1%.