IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
An Analysis of the Documentation Requests
chapter
E. M. Keen
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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GENERALITY I[OCRerr]NGTh FRE[OCRerr]UENCY PREPARER
SPECIFIC GENERAL LONG 8[OCRerr]RT LOW FRE[OCRerr]. HIGH FRE[OCRerr]. `[OCRerr]A11 "B'1
Stem,
10 Requests 4 6 6 4 4 6 6 4
Thesaurus, 13 12 11 14 13 12 12 13
25 Requests
Attenpt to Use Factors of Generality, Length and Frequency
to Make a Pre-search Dictionary Choice Between Stem and Thesaurus,
Abstract Results, Showing Nunbers of the 35 Requests that
Fall into Each Category.
Figure 22.