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Table 4 Examples of the top-10 entities for each entity class

From: Constructing fine-grained entity recognition corpora based on clinical records of traditional Chinese medicine

Entity class

Total count

Entity examples (top 10) and number of occurrences

Ordinary body part

21,091

口 (mouth; 2252), 头 (head; 1853), 腹 (abdomen; 1689), 胃 (stomach; 1267), 喉 (larynx; 962), 腰 (waist; 893), 肢 (limbs; 686), 背 (back; 585), 身 (body; 583), 手 (hand; 578)

Pulse

6148

脉 (pulse; 6091), 尺脉 (chi pulse; 11), 肾脉 (kidney pulse; 10), 关 (guan; 6), 寸 (cun; 6), 尺 (chi; 4), 关脉 (guan pulse; 4), 肝 (liver; 2), 沉取 (taking deeply; 1), 脉沉取 (taking the deep pulse; 1)

Tongue coating

4978

苔 (coating; 4765), 舌苔 (tongue coating; 188), 舌 (tongue; 16)

Tongue body

3789

舌 (tongue; 3695), 舌质 (tongue body; 87), 苔 (tongue coating; 3), 舌苔 (tongue coating; 1), 舌头 (tongue; 1), 质 (tongue body; 1)

Acupoints

469

风池 (GB20; 66), 太阳穴 (EX-HN5; 51), 肩井 (GB21; 40), 大椎 (DU14; 30), 环跳 (GB30; 27), 肩髃 (LI15; 14), 少海 (HT3; 12), 委中 (BL40; 11), 承扶 (BL36; 11), 天宗 (SI11; 10)

Zang organ

139

心 (heart; 125), 肺 (lung; 5), 肾 (kidney; 4), 脾 (spleen; 3)

Meridians and collaterals

34

膀胱经 (bladder meridian, BL; 8), 胃经 (stomach meridian, ST; 6), 大肠经 (large intestine meridian, LI; 4), 肝经 (liver meridian, LI; 2), 足太阳 (bladder meridian, BL; 2), 心经 (heart meridian, HT; 1), 肺经 (lung meridian, LU; 1), 手阳明经 (large intestine meridian, LI; 1), 足少阳 (gallbladder meridian, GB; 1), 小肠经 (small intestine meridian, SI; 1)

Fu organ

3

胆 (gallbladder; 2), 胃 (stomach; 1)

Both tongue body and coating

793

舌 (tongue; 793)

Tongue coating

manifestation

10,911

薄 (thin; 3612), 黄 (yellow; 1907), 腻 (slimy; 1725), 干 (dry; 791), 白 (738; white), 略黄 (slightly yellow; 570), 少 (less; 365), 厚 (thick; 254), 润 (moist; 233), 滑 (slippery; 150)

Tongue body

manifestation

4088

红 (red; 893), 淡 (pale; 564), 略红 (slightly red; 467), 暗 (dark; 216), 略暗 (slightly dark; 216), 红暗 (red and dark; 195), 齿印 (teeth-marked; 144), 暗红 (dark and red; 127), 淡暗 (pale and dark; 126), 略淡 (slightly pale; 122)

Pulse condition

9573

细 (thready; 3493), 弦 (string-like; 1364), 弱 (faint; 841), 沉 (sunken; 651), 滑 (slippery; 616), 数 (534; rapid), 软 (soft; 473), 平 (normal; 420), 略弦 (slightly string-like; 180), 略数 (slightly rapid; 123)

Direction and position

5781

左 (left; 1262), 右 (right; 1110), 下 (lower; 736), 上 (upper; 282), 心 (center; 273), 中 (middle; 199), 尖 (tip; 193), 前 (front; 141), 外 (outside; 136), 外侧 (outward; 128)