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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CRAN-l Collection
Request Stem Dictionary Thesaurus-3 Dictionary
Rank Document Corr. Rank Document Corr.
3 916 Relevant .2564 1 728 Non-relevant .4045
13 921 Relevant .2055 15 919 Relevant .2302
Q167 19 919 Relevant .1784 18 916 Relevant .2107
4 rel. 41 920 Relevant .1267 21 921 Relevant .2052
>41 728 Non-relevant .0289 62 920 Relevant .1375
Normed. Recall .9158 Normed. Recall .8648
Normed. Precision .6028 Normed. Precision .4667
1 34A Relevant .2146 1 316 Non-relevant .4173
13 33}{ Relevant .1304 13 34A Relevant .2494
Q323 43 331 Relevant .0597 29 33[OCRerr] Relevant .1739
5 rel. 65 34+ Relevant .0393 72 331 Relevant .1043
147 879 Relevant .0000 106 34i' Relevant .0685
147 316 Non-relevant .0000 177 879 Relevant .0000
Normed. Recall .7395 Normed. Recall .6082
Normed. Precision .5057 Normed. Precision .2952
Retrieval Results of Four Individual Requests Comparing Stem with Thesaurus
Fig. 28
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