Table 8

Data from human evaluation of Ontologies 8a and 7b.

Ontology 8a – Regex

Ontology 7b – Voting

Total number of top-level terms

662

1886

Number of sampled top-level terms

200

30.2% of total

200

10.6% of total

Number of sampled top-level terms relevant to animal behaviour

84

42% of sample

82

41% of sample

Proportionate number of top- level animal behaviour terms in the whole ontology

278

773

Number of sampled top-level an imal behaviour terms not found in the other ontology

44

22% of sample

77

38.5% of sample

Proportionate number of top- level animal behaviour terms in the whole ontology not found in the other ontology

145

727

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