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Table 11 Recommendation regarding the presentation of results

From: Natural language processing algorithms for mapping clinical text fragments onto ontology concepts: a systematic review and recommendations for future studies

1. Report the outcomes of the evaluation in a clear manner, preferably in a table accompanied by a textual description of the outcomes.

 1. Aim to include a confusion matrix in the reporting of the outcomes.

2. Use figures if they contribute to the making the results more readable and understandable for the reader. If a figure is used, make sure that the data is also available in the text or in a table.