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Table 9 Pathogen characterisation results. Pathogen identification (PI) is filtered with either a SVM or a BERT classifier that identifies and removes non-relevant pathogen mentions (PF, pathogen focus)

From: Classifying literature mentions of biological pathogens as experimentally studied using natural language processing

Method

Precision

Recall

F1

Pathogen identification

0.5632

0.8305

0.6712

PI + PF filtering SVM

0.5581

0.8136

0.6621

PI + PF filtering BERT

0.6104

0.7966

0.6912