IRS13 Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval Document Length 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. v-4i COLLECTION DICTIONARY EVALUATION ABSTRACT INDEDCING MEASURE Stem Normed. Recall .8644 .8897 Normed. Precision .67o4 .6831 CRAN-l Thesaurus-i Normed. Recall .8602 .8629 42 (Old Q.S.) Normede Precision .6319 .6335 Requests Thesaurus-2 Normed. Recall .8864 .8992 (N[OCRerr]w Q.S.) Normed. Precision .6864 .7094 Performance results comparing abstracts with indexing, on three dictionaries, using normalized recall and precision. Figure 27.