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
Exhaustivity of Indexing 3
Search Rule A
Document Relevance 1 - 4
Number of Documents in Collection
Number of Questions 35 (subset 1)
Number of Relevant Documents 287
Generality Number 5.9
L 5. a (S. T. Synonyms, Quasi-synonyms.
1.400
Coordinati on)
3oord- Documents Recall
[OCRerr]ation Precision
Retrieved Fallout
Level Ratio Ratio
Rel. Non-rel. a/a+c Ratio
a/a+b x
b/b+d y z
1 280 (-) 97.6% (-) (_)
2 253 17,130. 88,2% 35
1.5%* 0 35
3 194 34. 959%*
7,472 67.6% 35
2.5% 23* 35
15.339% 35 35 35
4 125 2,086 43.6%
5 5.6%
65 463 4. 282% 34
22.7% 35 35
12.3%
6 35 0.950%
88 12.2% 30
28.4% 35 35
0.181% 16 35 35
7 11 18 3.9% 38.0% 0. 037% 5 35 35
FIGURE 2.15 SAMPLE TABLE OF TEST RESULTS
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