CRANV1P1 ASLIB Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: VOLUME 1. Design, Part 1. Text Documents and Questions chapter Cyril Cleverdon Jack Mills Michael Keen Cranfield An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation. Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. Origin of documents I. Cited in authors' papers 2. Additional documents selected by students 3. Additional documents by bibliographic coupling 4. Complete total Total submitted to the authors for assessment Basic 5upp. 820 (7.0) 1152 (7.2) 351 (3.0) 566 (3.5) Accepted as relevant Basic Supp. 589 (5.0) 661 (4.1) 258 (2.2) 334 (2.1) Rejected To accepted as a[OCRerr] not relevant relevant Basic Supp. Basic Supp. 231 (2.0) 491 (3.1) 72.0% 57.3% 93 (0.8) 232 (1.4) 73.5% 59.0% 85 (0.7) 113 (0.7) 59 (0.5) 60 (0.4) 26 (0.2) 53 (0.3) 69.4% 53.1% 1256 (10.7) 1831 (11,4) 906 (7.7) 1055 (6.6) 350 (3.0) 776 (4.8) 72.2% 57.6% TABLE 3.6 THE RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS GIVING A COMPARISON OF BASIC AND SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS This table gives the same data as Table 3,4 except that the 279 questions are divided into the two groups of 118 basic questions and 161 supplementary questions, the figures in brackets representing the average for each question.