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Table 3 Processing time analysis for different steps

From: MeSH Now: automatic MeSH indexing at PubMed scale via learning to rank

Key steps in MeSH Now

Average time per document (ms)

Obtaining candidate terms via k-NN

1890.82

Obtaining candidate terms via MTI

570.33

Obtaining classification results from each binary text classifier

25.63

Learning to Ranking

103.86

Post-Processing and List Pruning

1.85