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<DOCNO> IRS13 </DOCNO>         
<TITLE> Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval </TITLE>         
<SUBTITLE> Search Matching Functions </SUBTITLE>         
<TYPE> chapter </TYPE>         
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<AUTHOR1> E. M. Keen </AUTHOR1>  
<PUBLISHER> Harvard University </PUBLISHER> 
<EDITOR1> Gerard Salton </EDITOR1> 
<COPYRIGHT MTH="December" DAY="" YEAR="1967" BY="National Science Foundation">   
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Request Q 1[OCRerr]7

8 request concepts, sum of weights 108, sum of squares of

                 weights 1584.


                  Cosine        MATCHING CONCEPTS        DOCUMENT CONCEPTS
Rank  Document    Numeric          Sum of   Sum of                    Sum of
                            Total  wts. in Doc.Wts.  Total  Sum of  Squares oi
               Correlation          Doct.  x Reqwts         Weights
                                                                     Weights

         42C R     .4421      3      180     3312     48
                                                               984   35,424
  2      921       .4305      4      156     2736
                                                      71      1116   25,488
  3      779       e4109      3      192     3456     67      1344
                                                                     44,64o
  4      699       e4081             180
                              5              3600     61      1308   49,104
  5      797 R     e3679      5      216     3744    109      2136
                                                                     65,376
  6      34A       e3565      5      204     3600     60
                                                              1476   64,368
  7      916       * 3468     6      132     2160     62      1056   24,480
  8      794 R     .3444             156     3024
                              3                      io4      1824   48,672
  9      683       .3355      4      204     3168             1764   66,96o
                                                      77
 10      793 R     .3325      4      132     2160
                                                      54      1020   26,640

 15      879       .2896      4       60      864     17
                                                               276    5,616

 17      795 R     .2665      4       48      720     26
                                                               336    4, 6o8

 27      316        2147      4       6o      864
                                                      43       612   10,224

 32      33H       .2082      6      120
                                             1728     63      1344   43,488


 34      672       .1979      4       48      720     40       552    8,352


 40      415       .1655      4       48      720
                                                      57       780   11,952

 43      796 R      1492      4       6o     1008     79      1296   28,800

         R = Helevant Document

Normalized Recall    = 0.9459

Normalized Precision = 0.7610


  Results of a single request using numeric vectors and cosine correlation
                                Figure 28

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