Table 11

Recall errors by type (top five types only)

Bikel (0.9.8)

Charniak-Lease

DEPENDENT

20.8%

DEPENDENT

20.4%

PREPOSITIONAL_MODIFIER

12.4%

NOUN_COMPOUND_MODIFIER

11.7%

PUNCTUATION

11.6%

PREPOSITIONAL_MODIFIER

11.6%

ADJECTIVAL_MODIFIER

8.2%

PUNCTUATION

10.5%

NOUN_COMPOUND_MODIFIER

8.0%

ADJECTIVAL_MODIFIER

7.0%

For each parser, these are the five most common dependency types that were not correctly generated, with the proportion of all recall errors they account for.

Clegg and Shepherd BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:24   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-24