IRS13 Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval Test Environment chapter E. M. Keen Harvard University Gerard Salton Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. 1-20 Concepts in Associations Proved Request Document by Concon Cylinder + Friction Cylinder Cylinder Cylinder + Length Known Friction Known + Kernel Along Length Along + Blade Etc. Unit Function Unit + Cylinder Velocity Function + Kernel Etc. Velocity + Blade (a) Section from con- con pair associ- ation list Request Expanded with Concon (b) Selection of con- cepts in request and document with- out concon Document Expanded with Concon (Cylinder) + Friction [OCRerr] Friction (Cylinder) + Length [OCRerr] Cylinder (Known) + Kernel (Along) + Blade Known Along Etc. Recall device effect Length Cylinder T {[OCRerr]ylinder (Unit) i Kernel + (Function) i Blade + (Velocity) 1 Unit I Function I Velocity I Etc. First order [OCRerr]matches (type A:c) }First order match (type Bt) Second order )`natches [OCRerr]precision device effect (c) Selection of the request and document concepts using concon, with five matches of three types generated Illustration of Recall and Precision Device Effect of Concon Fig. 7