Concept Methodology: Barriers & challenges
Summary
References to barriers and challenges were identified based on English-language dictionary definitions in combination with semantically-related terms and phrases commonly identified in the literature. For more information about our approach, please see our methodology.
Methodology
The taxonomy of barriers and challenges was compiled based on English-language dictionary synonyms and semantically-related terms relevant to the concepts of barriers, challenges and lessons learned. Semantic searches were conducted on the existing corpus of documents to identify relevant terms to include within the filter (e.g. obstacle, barriers, inadequate and lessons learned). This taxonomy was compiled focusing on the language chosen to describe and evaluate activities and policies within the text, and does not reflect any external evaluation or judgment of their success or efficacy.
The taxonomy was adapted to match the 3 hierarchies required for the tool and additions were made to capture acronyms, synonyms, and other grammatical expressions of the concepts within the taxonomy. Learn more about our taxonomy methodology.
Changelog
v1.0
- Created the category Challenges
- Created the term challenges for the category Challenges
- Created the term barriers for the category Challenges
- Created the term hurdles for the category Challenges
- Created the term obstacles for the category Challenges
- Created the term difficult for the category Challenges
- Created the term impediment for the category Challenges
- Created the term lacking for the category Challenges
- Moved the term fail to the category Challenges
- Moved the term failure to the category Challenges
- Moved the term unsuccessful to the category Challenges
- Moved the term inadequate to the category Challenges
- Moved the term insufficient to the category Challenges
- Moved the term deficient to the category Challenges
- Created the category Barriers
- Moved the term barriers to the category Barriers
- Moved the term obstacles to the category Barriers
- Moved the term hurdles to the category Barriers
- Moved the term difficult to the category Barriers
- Moved the term impediment to the category Barriers
- Moved the term limit to the category Barriers
- Moved the term restrict to the category Barriers
- Amended the term limit to limitation in the category Barriers
- Created the term drawback for the category Challenges
- Created the term constraint for the category Challenges
- Created the term inaction for the category Challenges
- Created the term shortcoming for the category Challenges
- Created the term prevent for the category Barriers
- Created the term lack of capacity for the category Challenges
- Created the term lack of access for the category Challenges
- Created the term lack of data for the category Challenges
v1.1
- Added lesson learnt to the category Lessons Learned
We measured the performance of this concept by manually labelling a test set and comparing the labels to annotations made by this method. We will continue to update this section as we improve our approach for detecting this concept.
Over time we will use these statistics to evaluate which concepts are better to detect using machine learning models vs linguistic rules.
| Precision |
Recall |
F1 |
Support |
| 0.54 |
0.49 |
0.51 |
39 |