CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Simulated ranking and document output cut-off
chapter
Cyril Cleverdon
Michael Keen
Cranfield
An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation.
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DOCUMENT
OUTPUT
CUT-OFF
III-1
R P
III- 2 III- 3 II1-4 Ill - 5 III- 6
R P R P R P R P R P
1 13 62 13 62 11 50 10 48 10 48 8 38
2 21 50 21 50 16 37 16 37 15 36 13 30
3 31 46 31 48 24 38 25 40 23 36 22 34
4 36 42 35 42 29 36 29 36 28 33 28 33
5 39 37 38 37 35 33 35 33 31 29 33 31
6-7 46 31 45 31 43 29 43 29 38 26 39 27
8-10 53 25 52 25 49 23 51 24 46 22 46 22
11-15 62 20 63 20 59 18[OCRerr] 60 19 54 17 55 17
16-20 67 16 68 16 63 14 65 15 62 14 65 15
72 ii
79 7
85 5
88 4
93 3
96 3
21-30
31-50
51-75
76-100
101-125
126-150
151-175 I00 2
176-200 I00 2
NORMALISED
RECALL
74 12 70 10 71 11 70 10 74 12
79 7 78 7 79 7 80 7 82 8
86 5 85 5 86 5 87 5 89 6
88 4 89 4 90 4 91 4 '93 4
93 3 92 3 93 3 95 3 95 3
95 3 95 3 95 3 98 3 98 3
100 2 99 2 99 2 99 2 100 2
100 2 100 2 100 2 100 2 100 2
Search E 63.58 63.64 61.00 61.58 60.41 61.17
Search A 61.76 61.76 60.11 59,70 59.58 59.17
FIGURE 5.21T
RECALL AND PRECISION FIGURES FOR INDEX LANGUAGES
III. 1 - III.6 . FOR SEARCH E BY DOCUMENT OUTPUT
CUT-OFF METHOD, TOGETHER WITH NORMALISED
RECALL FOR SEARCH E AND SEARCH A.
(R = Recall Ratio, P = Precision Ratio)