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Table 3 Mean contribution of algorithms to word sense disambiguation (smoothing) and ranking

From: A UMLS-based spell checker for natural language processing in vaccine safety

SMOOTHING ALGORITHM

TRAINING SET n = 12,056

TEST SET n = 8,131

Concept

12%

13%

Homonym

1%

1%

N-Gram

55%

53%

Metaphone

5%

4%

Length

14%

14%

Part-of-speech

10%

11%

History

3%

4%

TOTAL

100%

100%