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Table 1 Method notation

From: Collecting specialty-related medical terms: Development and evaluation of a resource for Spanish

Notation

t

The term under scrutiny

N

The total number of texts in the corpus

\(N_{e_i}\)

The number of texts belonging to the specialty i

\(N^{t}\)

The number of texts that contain the term t

\(N^{t}_{e_i}\)

The number of texts belonging to a specialty i that contain the term t

\(E^t\)

The number of specialties that contain the term t

\(fe^t_i\)

The number of occurrences in texts of the specialty i of the term t

\(F^t\)

The number of occurrences of the term t in all texts (Spanish abstracts and titles harvested from PubMed records) of all specialties