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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AM[OCRerr], LONG, SHORT,
EvAL[OCRerr]TI0N 35 REQUESTS 17 REQUESTS 18 REQUESTS
DICTIONARY MEAS[OCRerr]RE 4-18 CONCEPTS, 8-18 CONCEPTS, 4-7 CONCEPTS,
MEAN 8.o MEAN 10.8 MEAN 5.4
Stem Normed. Recall .7601 .8363 .6883
Normed. Precision .5326 .6191 .4509
Thesaurus 1 Normede Recall .8016 .8352 .7699
Normed. Precision .6069 .6353 e580l
Pertormance Results Comparing All the Requests, the Long Requests
Only and the Short Requests Only, with Two Dictionaries.
Figure 5