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Table 3 Comparison of the precisions, recalls and F-measures among the length-normalized edit distance, weighted edit distance using v c , and weighted edit distance using v n , when the F-measures were maximized

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

Method

Data

Precision

Recall

F-measure

Threshold

Edit

X

0.66857

0.61363

0.63992

< 0.125

Distance

Y

0.46385

0.57731

0.51440

< 0.21428

Weighted

X

0.69673

0.63461

0.66422

< 0.08571

ED (v c )

Y

0.51077

0.53327

0.52177

< 0.14117

Weighted

X

0.61412

0.65384

0.63336

< 0.125

ED (v c )

Y

0.46225

0.60262

0.52318

< 0.19473

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