IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
Search Matching Functions
chapter
E. M. Keen
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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EVALUATION [OCRerr]U[OCRerr][OCRerr]ER [OCRerr] [OCRerr]R[OCRerr]ENTpGE*
MEASURE USED OF INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS
COLLECTION INPUT AND DICTIONARY TO DETERMINE COSINE OVERLAP BOTIJ [OCRerr]
MERIT SUPERIOR SUPERIOR EQU([OCRerr]L
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IRE-3 Abstract, Stem Normed Recall 20 58.8% l[OCRerr] [OCRerr]i.2% 0
Normed Precision 21 61.8% 13 38e2% 0
3[OCRerr]
Requests Abstract, Thesaurus Normed Recall 26 76.5% 8 23.5% 0
-3 Normed Precision 22 6[OCRerr].7% 12 35.3% 0
CRMT-l Abstract, Stem Normed Recall 28 70.0% 12 30.0% 2
Normed Precision 314 82.9% 7 17.1% 1
42 Abstract, Thesaurus Normed Recall 35 83.3% 7 16.7% 0
Requests -3 Normed Precision 36 85.7% 6 14.3% C)
Text, Stem Normed Recall 24 70.6% 10 29.4% 1
Normed Precision 23 67.6% 11 22.4% 1
ADI Text, Thesaurus-l Normed Recall 26 74.3% 9 25.7% 0
Normed Precision 28 8o.o% 7 20.0% 0
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Requests Abstract, Stem Normed Recall 17 5O.0[OCRerr] 17 5o.0% 1
Normed Precision 18 52.9% 16 47.1% 1
Abstract, Thesaurus Normed Recall 23 67.6% 11 32.4% 1
-1 Normed Precision 28 8o.o% 7 20.0% 0
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Percentages do not include cases where both options have equal merit.
Comparison of individual request merit givin[OCRerr] the numbers of requests forming
cosine and overlap with percentages on 8 options from three collections,
according to merit assigned by normalized recall and precision.
Figure 8.