IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
Thesaurus, Phrase and Hierarchy Dictionaries
chapter
E. M. Keen
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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Thesaurus-3
Collection Input and Evaluation Thesaurus-3 with Phrases,
Type of Thesaurus Measure Dictionary Weight 1.0
Abstract Normed. Recall .9191 .9282
IRE-3 (Thesaurus-2) Normed. Precision .7072 .7252
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Requests Abstract Normed. Recall .9268 .9326
CThesaurus-3) Normed. Precision .7382 .7529
C[OCRerr]N-l Abstract Normed. Recall .8837 .8791
42 (Thesaurus-3) Normed. Precision .6952 .6873
Requests
ADI Text Normed. Recall .8206 .8224
35 (Thesaurus-l) Normed. Precision .6273 .6336
Requests
Performance Results Comparing Thesaurus Without and with
Phrases for Four Results Using Cosine Numeric on Three
Collections, and Normalized Recall and Precision
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