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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FIGURE 4.612T
Index Language l.l.a
Exhaustivity of IndexLng 3
Search Rule A
Document Relevance 1-2
Number of Documents in Collection 1400
Number of Questions 50
Number of Relevant Documents 155
Generality Number 2.2
Coord- Documents Recall Precision Fallout
ination Retrieved Ratio Ratio Ratio x y z
Level Rel. Non-rel. a/a+c a/a+b b/b+d
I 146 30.918 94.2% O. 5%
2 125 44. 267%
11.726 80.6% 50 50
1.0% 50
3 87 16.789%
4,806 50 50
56.1% i. 8% 50
8. 958% 47 50 50
4 58 1,776 37.4%
5 3.2%
33 2. 543% 39 46
740 21.3"/0 46
8 21 4.3% i. 059%
287 13.5% 21 40
8.9% 40
0.411% 12 30 30
7 10 89 6.5%
8 10.2'/o
6 0.127%
18 3.9% 8 23
25. [OCRerr]o 23
9 4 57. i% o. 028,/0 4
3 2.6% 12 12
O. 004'/, 3 10 10
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0 8
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FIGURE 4.613T
Index Language I. I. a
Exhaustivity of Indexing 3
Search Rule A
Document Relevance 1
Number of Documents in Collection 1400
Number of Questions 50
Number of Relevant Documents 95
Generality Number 1.4
Coord- Documents Recall Precision Fallout
ination Retrieved Ratio Ratio Ratio x y z
Level Rel. Non-tel. a/a+c a/a+b b]b+d
1 90 30,974 94.7% 0.3% 44. 309% 50 50 50
2 81 11,770 85.3% O. 7% 16. 837% 50 50 50
3 57 4.836 60.0% 1.2% 6. 918% 47 50 50
4 40 1,794 42.1% 2.2% 2. 566'/0 39 46 46
5 24 749 25.3% 3.1% 1. 071% 21 40 40
6 14 294 14.7% 4.5% 0.420% 12 30 30
7 7 92 7.4% 7.1% 0.153% 8 23 23
8 3 21 3.2% 14.3% 0.030% 4 12 12
9 2 5 2.1% 28.6% o. 007% 3 10 10
10 0 1 o. 0% o. 0% o. oo1% 1 8 8
11 0. 0 0 6 6
12 0 0 0 1 1