IRS13 Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval Evaluation Parameters 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. [OCRerr]L3 Number of Documents Examined 111111 III Best Possible Precision Performance Curve 1.0 Precision 1.0 - 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.6 - 0.4 - 0.4 x[OCRerr]l5 0.2 - I I [OCRerr]loc I I [OCRerr] 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 2[OCRerr]0 Recall l.0~ 0.2 - N ½>[OCRerr][OCRerr]1 I I 1.0 [OCRerr] Rec( 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 a) Document Cut-Off "Pseudo-Cr[OCRerr]field" c[OCRerr]puted by hand. b) Document Cut-off - "Pseudo-Cranfield as c[OCRerr]nputed by evaluation routines a ten recall levels. Cran-l, Abstracts, Thesaurus-3, Micro Evaluation of 142 Requests An Illustration of the Document Cut-off or "Pseudo-Cranfield Method. Fig. 114