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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Lndex Language I. 8a (S. T. Synonyms, Second hierarchical redaction.
Exhaustivity of Indexing 3
Search Rule A
Document Relevance 1 - 4
Number of Documents in Collection 200 (Subset 1)
Number of Questions 42 (Subset 2)
Number of Relevant Documents 198
Generality Number 23.6
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Ratio Ratio Ratio x y z
Level l Documeuts
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Rel. Non-rel. a / a+c a/a+h b/b+d
1 193 4,954 97.5% 3.7% 60.409% 42 42 42
2 173 2,551 87.4% 6,4% 31.102% 42 42 42
3 146 1,081 73.7% 11.9% 13.180% 42 42 42
4 104 418 52.5% 19.9% 5.096% 37 41 41
5 67 146 33.8% 31.5% 1.780% 27 39 39
6 33 37 16.7% 47.1% 0.451% 21 33 33
7 12 7 6.1% 63.2% 0.085% 8 27 27
8 5 1 2.5% 83.3% 0.012% 2 16 18
9 2 0 1.o% loo.o% 0.000% 1 11 11
10 0 0 0 7 7
11 0 0 0 3 3
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