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Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
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E. M. Keen
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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EVALUATION NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE*
MEASURE USED OF INDIVIDUAL RE[OCRerr][OCRerr]UESTS
COLLECTION DICTIONARY TO DETERMINE ABSTRACT TITLE IBOTH
MERIT SUPERIOR SUPERIOR EQUAL
Stem Normed. Recall 29 (85.3%) 5 (l[OCRerr].7%) 0
rRE-3 Normed. Precision 28 (82.24%) 6 (17.6%) 0
3[OCRerr]
Thesaurus-3 Normed. Recall 30 (88.2%) 14 (11.8%) 0
Requests Normed. Precision 32 (914.1%) 2 ( 5.9%) 0
CRAN-l Stem Normed. Recall 30 (75.0%) 10 (25.0%) 2
Normed. Precision 30 (75.0%) 10 (25.0%) 2
142
Thesaurus-3 Normed. Recall 26 (66.7%) 13 (33.3%) 3
R[OCRerr]uests Normed. Precision 22 (57.9%) 16 (142.1%) 14
Stem Normed. Recall 214 (72.7%) 9 (27.3%) 2
ADI Normed. Precision 214 (72.7%) 9 (27.3%) 2
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Requests Thesaurus-i Normed. Recall 25 (75.8%) 8 (214.2%) 2
Normed. Precision 26 (78.8%) 7 (21.2%) 2
* ?ercentages exclude requests when both equal
Comparison of individual request merit, giving numbers and percentages of
requests favoring abstracts and titles on three collections each using two
dictionaries, according to merit assigned by the normalized evaluation
measures.
Figure 9.