IRS13 Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval Suffix Dictionaries 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. ~Iized oil Individual 8 26 Requests Stem KSuffix 8[OCRerr]I 26 Requests better on Suffix `5' (76.5%) 8 Requests better on Stem (23.5%) 8 Requests equal on both Normalized Precision .20 - Stem Suffik .16 x .12 .08 .04 0 I 10 25 25 Requests better on Suffix `5' (71.4 10 Requests better on Stem (28.6 7 Requests equal on both CRAN-l, 42 Requests Graphs of the Magz[OCRerr]tudes of the Differences in Individual Requests, Comparing Stem and Suffix `5' Dictionaries, using Normalized Recall and Precision Fig. 6.