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ASLIB Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: VOLUME 1. Design, Part 1. Text
Documents and Questions
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Cyril Cleverdon
Jack Mills
Michael Keen
Cranfield
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Relevance grades
Strength of match Totals,
(I) (2) (3) (4) all
relevant
Str'ong match 12 17 4O 2O 89
Weak match 3 2O 39 25 87
No match 4 24 54 29 111
(Total) 19 61 133 74 287
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Percent strong match 63.2% 27.9% 30.1% 27.0% 31.0%
Percent strong and weak combined match 78.9% 60.7% 59.4% 60.8% 61.3%
TABLE 3.10. RELEVANCE GRADES OF DOCUMENTS
WITH SPECIFIED QUESTION-TITLE MATCII
Strength of match Cited Additional All
documents documents documents
Strong match 44 45 89
Weak match 38 49 87
No match 67 44 111
(Total) 149 138 287
Percent strong match 29.5% 32.6% 31.0%
Percent strong and weak match combined 55.0% 68.1% 61.3%
TABLE 3.11. COMPARISON OF THE CITED AND ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTS WITH SPECIFIED QUESTION-TITLE MATCH