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Table 2 Optimized weight vectors for chemical names and the others

From: Discriminative application of string similarity methods to chemical and non-chemical names for biomedical abbreviation clustering

character

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

v c

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.4

1.0

1.0

0.1

0.8

1.0

1.0

0.6

0.6

v n

1.0

0.7

0.7

0.8

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.8

0.8

1.0

1.0

0.8

1.0

character

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

v c

0.7

1.0

0.1

1.0

0.9

0.6

1.0

0.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.3

1.0

v n

0.7

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.4

0.8

1.0

0.0

0.8

0.0

  1. The vector v c indicates the optimized weight vector for chemical names when operations of insertions and deletions of edit distance are weighted from 0.0 to 1.0. Similarly, the vector v n indicates the optimized weight vector for non-chemical names.