IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
Test Environment
chapter
E. M. Keen
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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CHARACTERISTICS IRE-3 CRAN-l ADI
Number of requests, (all requests) 34 42 35
Number of relevant documents:
a) grand tota]. 592 198 170
b) range 2-65 1-12 1-33
c) mean, per request 17.4 4.7 4.9
d) median, per request 16 4 3
e) "generality nwnber"* 22.2 23.6 59.2
Number of specific requests 17 21 17
Number of relevant documents:
a) grand total 128 63 36
b) range 2-16 1-4 1-3
c) mean, per request 7.5 3.0 2.1
d) median, per request 7 3 2
e) "generality nurnberII* 9.7 15.0 25.8
Number of general requests 17 21 18
Number of relevant documents:
a) grand total 464 135 134
b) range 17-65 5-12 4-33
c) mean, per request 25.8 6.4 7.4
d) median, per request 20 6 6
e) "generality number"* 35.0 32.1 90.8
*
Generality Number --
Total Relevant Documents x 1000
Total Doic[OCRerr]uments in Collection
Data on Documents Assessed as Relevant to the Requests
Fig. 3