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Table 8 Statistics of extraction errors by our method

From: Improving chemical disease relation extraction with rich features and weakly labeled data

Error type

FN

FP

Total

%

NER or normalization errors

254

58

312

39.90

CID relations mentioned in single sentences

148

124

272

34.78

CID relations asserted across sentences

63

54

117

14.96

Extracted disease or chemical in CID is too general

0

46

46

5.88

The extracted disease/chemical pair is a treatment relation

0

29

29

3.71

Annotated CID relations absent in the abstract

6

0

6

0.77

Total

471

311

782

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