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Table 3 Results of the kNN-Classifier according to the classifier and strategy used for fixing N: a) 0.5 as the minimal confidence score threshold, b) the average size of the sets of labels collected from the neighbours and c) the cut-off method. A training set of 20,000 documents is used

From: Large scale biomedical texts classification: a kNN and an ESA-based approaches

Strategy

Classifier

EBP

EBR

EBF

a)

NB

0.58

0.49

0.49

RF

0.74

0.34

0.43

b)

NB

0.51

0.54

0.51

RF

0.52

0.54

0.52

c)

NB

0.56

0.52

0.51

RF

0.61

0.52

0.53