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ASLIB CRANFIELD RESEARCH PROJECT VOLUME 2


By Cyril Cleverdon and Michael Keen
Report of Cranfield II.

CONTENTS
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Test Environment 3
Chapter 3 Methods for presentation of results 31
Chapter 4 Main Test Results 78
Chapter 5 Simulated Ranking and document output cut-off 192
Chapter 6 Supplementary tests and results 221
Chapter 7 Citation indexing and bibliographic coupling 243
Chapter 8 Conclusions 252
References 264
Appendix 3A Tables of generality number, and fallout, recall, and precision ratios 252
Appendix 4A Set of individual test results 252
Appendix 5A Formula for document ranking based on probability considerations, by G.H. Stearman 252
INDEX 299

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