CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Main test results
chapter
Cyril Cleverdon
Michael Keen
Cranfield
An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation.
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Index Language L6. a (S.T.
Ex.haustivity of [OCRerr]ldexing 3
Search Rule A
Document Relevance 1 - 4
Number of Documents in Collection 1,400
Number of Queationa 42 (Subset 2)
Number of Relevant Documents 198
Generality Number 3.4
Synonyms. Quasz-synonymso Word forms. Coordination)
Coord- Documents
ination Recan Precision
Retrieved Fallout
Level Ratio
Rel. Ratlo
Non-rel. a/a+c Ratio
a/a+b x y
b/b+d z
1 z95 (-)
2 98.5%
179 (-) (_)
13, 8Z6[OCRerr] 42 0 42
3 90.4%
151 10,508 1.3%* 23. 120%*
76.3% 1.4% 42 6* 42
17.028% 42 42 42
4 120
5 3,875 60.6%
79 1,299 3.0% 6.612% 40 41 41
6 39.9%
47 362 5.7%
23.7% 2.217%
11.5% 34 39
0.618% 39
24 33 33
7 27 91
8 13,6%
7 22.9%
3.5% 0.I55% 16 27 27
9 17
5 6 29.2% O. 029%
2.5% 45.5% 7 18 18
0.01o% 5 II II
10 0
11 3 o. 0%
0 0 O. 0% 0.005% 2 7 7
12 0 0 0 3 3
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14
15
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