IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
An Analysis of the Documentation Requests
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E. M. Keen
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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FREQUENCY IN
TERM THESAURUS NUMBER OF REQUESTS COLLECTION
(STEM) CONCEPT NO. TOTAL *VIAII *ltBl? STEM[OCRerr] RANK+
Information 1 24 11 13 998 1st
Retrieval 5 14 12 2 255 14th
A[OCRerr]omat 19 14 7 7 86 86th
C[OCRerr]ut 3 7 2 5 326 8th
Dissemination 108 6 3 3 47 124th
Article 21 6 5 1 86 86th
Index 4 5 1 4 424 3rd
Scienc 10 5 4 1 300 [OCRerr]h
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Requests prepared by Persons A and B
Frequency is based on word stems, therefore IvInformationti is the
most frequent stem (Rank 1st) and is used 998 timese
Eight Thesaurus Concepts Most frequently Used in the
Requests Giving Frequency Data for Each [OCRerr]or Stem
Figure 1.