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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Number of Requests with
Collection Rank of First Relevant
and Input Dictionary _______ ________ _________
1-2 3-10 > 11
Thesaurus-3 30 2 2
IRE-3 Phrases 30 2 2
Abstracts Hierarchy - Parents 30 3 1
Hierarchy - All Relations 32 2
CRAN-l Thesaurus[OCRerr]3:b 27 10 5
Abstract Phrases 26 11 5
ADI Thesaurus-l 21 9 5
Text Phrases 20 9 6
* This results differs slightly from that given in Fig. 16 because
the present comparison requires the use of output that assigns
a slightly different rank in cases of tied rank positions.
Comparison of Individual Request Merit giving the Number of Requests
Achieving Three Ranges of Rank Position to the Best
Ranked Relevant, comparing Thesaurus with Phrases, and
Thesaurus with Hierarchy
Fig. 27