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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Index Language L 2. a (S. T. Synonyms. Coordination)
Exhaustivity of Indexing 3
Search Rule A
Document Relevance 1 - 4
Number of Documents in Collection
Number of Questions 221 (Subset 3)
Number of Relevant Documents
Generality Number 5.1
1.400
1,590
{( C oord- Documents Recall Precision Fallout
ination Retrieved Ratio Ratio Ratio x y z
Level Rel. Non-rel. a]a+c a/a+b b/b+d
1 1.514 (-) 95.2% (-) 221 0 221
2.2%* (-)
2 1,313 59,734. 82.6% 19. 406"/0* 221 44* 221
3 981 23,654* 61.7% 4. 0%* 7.680%* 216 109" 220
4 644 8, 850* 40.5% 6. 8%* 2. 873%* 192 142" 212
5 355 2, 946* 22.3% 10.4%* 0.957%* 139 177* 197
6 169 928* 10.6% 15.4%* 0. 301%* 92 161" 164
7 80 254 5.0% 24.0% 0. 083% 55 140 140
8 24 59 1. 570 28.9% O. 019% 23 105 105
9 8 8 o. 5% 50.0% o. 003% 8 78 78
I0 1 52 52
ii 1 0 o.i7o loo.o% 0.000%
0 0 0 32 32
12 0 0 0 15 15
13 0 0 0 8 8
14 0 0 0 4 4
15 0 0 0 3 3
FIGUI:tE 2.14 SAMPLE TABLE OF TEST RESULTS