CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Test Environment
chapter
Cyril Cleverdon
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.
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No, of No of
No. of Documents in I[OCRerr]elevant
Question Subsets Questions Collection Documents
Tested
Geuera~,ity
Number
Subset 1 35 1400
All have seven siarting terms
in single term languages,
covering aerodynamics and
structures.
Subset 2 42 1400
Startiag terms vary, all
42 200
questions aerodynamics only. (subset 1)
38 are drawn from Subset
42 350
3, and 4 from the 58 (subset 2)
questions not used. The
number of relevant in the
1400 collection is actually
201, but the three documents
concerned (1329 in QI19,
2289 in Q145 and Q146) are
deleted from the collection in
results of this subset since they
did not appear in collection
Subset 1.
Subset 3 221 1400
Starting terms vary, covering
aerodynamics and structures.
The largest set of questions
available, all single theme in
single term languages.
Subset 4 19 1400
Part of Subset 1, all having
seven starting terms.
Subset 5 17 1400
All having eleven starting
terms in single term languages,
covering aerodynamics and
structures.
Sut)set 6 20 .1400
Part of Subset 1, [OCRerr]11 having
seven starting terms.
Subset 7 77 350
(subset 2)
Includes all the questions in
Subset 2, aerodynamics only.
Subset 8 42 1400
Structures only.
287
1590
131
109
147
454
255
5.9
3.4
23.6
13.5
5.1
4.9
4.6
5.3
16.8
4.3
FIGURE 2.12