CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Methods for presentation of results
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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Coordination
Level
Documents
Retrieved
Rel (a) Non-Rel (b)
Recall
Ratio
a/a+ C
Precision
Ratio
a/a-[OCRerr] b
1 97 2,674 69.3% 3.5%
2 77 788 55.0% 8.9%
3 56 220 40. 0% 20. 3%
4 37 30 26.4% 55.2%
5 33 17 23.6% 66.0%
Relevant documents (a + e) = 140
Generality number 5
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8o
7o
6o
5O
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*1. PRECISION
FIGURE 3.4TP
TABLE AND PLOT OF TEST RESULTS FOR 20 QUESTIONS
SHOWING RECALL AND PRECISION RATIOS FOR SEARCH Y
(BROKEN LINE) (SEARCH X CONTINUOUS LINE)