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
1. Cited in authors' papers
2. Additional documents
selected by students
3. Additional documents by
bibliographic coupling
4. Complete total
Relevant
Total
Grades of Relevance
1 2 3
(B) 589 (5.0) 12 (0.1) 159 (1.3) 273 (2.4)
(S) 661 (4.1) 146 (0.9) 189 (1.2) 219 (1.4)
(B) 258 (2.2) 1 53 (0.5) 144 (1.2)
(S) 334 (2.1) 11 (0.1) 44 (0.3) 200 (1.2)
(B) 59 (0.5) 0 6 (0.1) 30 (0.2)
(S) 60 (0.4) 1 10 (0.1) 36 (0.2)
(B) 906 (7.7) 13 (0.1) 218 (1.9) 447 (3.8)
(S) 1055 (6.6) 158 (I.0) 243 (1.6) 455 (2.8)
4
145 (l .2)
107 (0.6)
60 (0.5)
79 (0.5)
23 (0.2)
13 (0.1)
228 (i .9)
199 (1.2)
TABLE 3.7
RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS GIVING A COMPARISON OF BASIC
AND SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS FOR ALL GRADES OF
RELEVANCE
This table gives the same data as Table 3.5 except that the 279 questions
are divided into the two groups of 118 basic questions and 116 supplementary
questions, with the average for each question in brackets.
(B) = Basic question (S) = Supplementary question.