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
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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.