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<DOCNO> IRS13 </DOCNO>         
<TITLE> Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval </TITLE>         
<SUBTITLE> Document Length </SUBTITLE>         
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<AUTHOR1> E. M. Keen </AUTHOR1>  
<PUBLISHER> Harvard University </PUBLISHER> 
<EDITOR1> Gerard Salton </EDITOR1> 
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                             EVALUATION        NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE*
                            MEASUR[OCRerr] USED       OF INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS
COLLECTION   DICTIONARY     TO DETIBINE       TEXT    ABSTRACT     BOTH
                               MERIT        SUPERIOR  SUF[OCRerr]RIOR     EQUAL


   ADI       Stem        Normed. Recall    19 (57e6%) l[OCRerr] ([OCRerr]2.1+%)   2
                         Normed. Precision 17 ([OCRerr]8.6%) 18 (5i.i;[OCRerr])   0
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Requests     Thesaurus-i Normed. Recall    20 (58.8%) l[OCRerr] (14i.4[OCRerr])   1
                         Normed. Precision 21 (61.8%) 13 (38e2%)    1

* Percentages exclude requests where both equal.


Comparison of individual request merit, giving the numbers and percentages

of requests favoring text and abstracts on the ADI collection, according

          to merit assigned by the normalized evaluation measures.


                               Figure 21.

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