IRS13
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 REQUESTS
COLLECTION DICTIONARY TO DETERMINE INDEXING ABSTRACT BOTH
MERIT SUPERIOR SUPERIOR EQUAL
Normed. Recall 25 (6[OCRerr].l%) l[OCRerr] (35.0%) 3
CRAN-l Stem Normed. Precision 20 (51.3%) 19 (P8.7%) 3
[OCRerr]2
Requests Thesaurus-2 Normed. Recall 223 (59.0%) 16 ([OCRerr]l.o%) 3
Normed. Precision [OCRerr] (60.5%) 15 (39.5%) 4
* Percentages exclude requests where both equal.
Comparison of individual request merit giving the numbers and
percentages of requests favoring indexing and abstracts on two
dictionaries according to merit assigned by the normalized
evaluation measures.
Figure 30.