IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
Search Matching Functions
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.
111-20
Request QA2 ADI Collection, full text, thesaurus dictionary. 2 relevant
documents.
Cosine Correlation (Logical Vectors)
Relevant
Rank Documents Correlation Length(Thesaurus Concepts)
25 12 0.2l[OCRerr]l 159
29 71 0.2108 162
Normalized Recall = 0.6813
Normalized Precision = 0.2732
Overlap Correlation (Logical Vectors)
Relevant
Rank Documents Correlation Length(Thesaurus Concepts)
12 o.8888 159
71 o.8888 162
Normalized Recall = 0.8438
Normalized Precision = 0.[OCRerr]3[OCRerr]5
Example of individual request where overlap is superior to cosine.
Figure 10.