CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Main test results
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Cyril Cleverdon
Michael Keen
Cranfield
An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation.
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In the first section the results are given for the single term
index languages with the largest set of documents and questions.
Because of the doubts regardin[OCRerr] the totalling method used, the
35 seven-term questions set is given for comparison. This is
followed by the 42 aerodynamic questions on the 1400 document
collection, with a final table for this set of questions with the
200 document collection. The purpose of this group of tables is
first to justify the totalling procedure, then the reduced set of
questions and finally the reduced set of documents.
Section 2 gives the results for the 42-question and 200-
document sets for the eight single term languages. The tests
using precision devices of interfixing and partitioning are given
in Section 3, and are followed in Section 4 by comparative resuits
at different levels of exhaustivity. The effect of search rules
is shown in Section 5 and the different levels of relevance are
tested in Section 6. Results for fifteen simple concepts index
languages are presented in Section 7, while Section 8, which deals
with the six controlled term index languages, includes results for
recall devices, precision devices and search rules. In Section 9
are presented the results of searches on the titles and abstracts,
The tables and plots are numbered according to the above
nine sections, [OCRerr]Tw indicating a table and wp[OCRerr] indicating a plot. In
all cases unless otherwise stated, the plots are of recall and
precision ratios.