Results:
200 MEDLINE citations are processed using the system parameters. Precision and recall values are computed for all MeSH expressions as well as the starred MeSH expressions. The following is the listing of
precision and recall values for the top 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 ranked MeSH expressions suggested by the Indexing Initiative prototype.
- Top 5 MeSH terms:
| Precision: | 0.60, | sd = 0.23 |
| Recall: | 0.29, | sd = 0.15 |
| (*)Precision: | 0.27, | sd = 0.16 |
| (*)Recall: | 0.48, | sd = 0.27 |
- Top 10 MeSH terms:
| Precision: | 0.48, | sd = 0.17 |
| Recall: | 0.41, | sd = 0.17 |
| (*)Precision: | 0.21, | sd = 0.10 |
| (*)Recall: | 0.67, | sd = 0.27 |
- Top 15 MeSH terms:
| Precision: | 0.38, | sd = 0.14 |
| Recall: | 0.47, | sd = 0.17 |
| (*)Precision: | 0.16, | sd = 0.08 |
| (*)Recall: | 0.73, | sd = 0.25 |
- Top 20 MeSH terms:
| Precision: | 0.32, | sd = 0.12 |
| Recall: | 0.51, | sd = 0.17 |
| (*)Precision: | 0.13, | sd = 0.06 |
| (*)Recall: | 0.77, | sd = 0.25 |
- Top 25 MeSH terms:
| Precision: | 0.27, | sd = 0.10 |
| Recall: | 0.54, | sd = 0.17 |
| (*)Precision: | 0.11, | sd = 0.05 |
| (*)Recall: | 0.79, | sd = 0.23 |
- 11-point Average Precision: 0.33
- 3-point Average Precision: 0.29