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<DOCNO> IRS13 </DOCNO>         
<TITLE> Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval </TITLE>         
<SUBTITLE> Thesaurus, Phrase and Hierarchy Dictionaries </SUBTITLE>         
<TYPE> chapter </TYPE>         
<PAGE CHAPTER="7" NUMBER="48">                   
<AUTHOR1> E. M. Keen </AUTHOR1>  
<PUBLISHER> Harvard University </PUBLISHER> 
<EDITOR1> Gerard Salton </EDITOR1> 
<COPYRIGHT MTH="December" DAY="" YEAR="1967" BY="National Science Foundation">   
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VII-~8


         Collection        Stem Dictionary          Thesaurus Dictionary

             and               Relevant                   Relevant

           Request     Rank    Document    Corr.   Rank   Document     Corr.

                         33       09       .1512      1       09       .4100
           ADI           48       70       .0977      7       48       .3062
           QBl0          58       69       .0769     26       70       .1825
           4 rel.        67       48       .0599     32       69       .1268


                        Normed4 Recal[OCRerr]   .3718      Nozrned. Recall .8205
                       Normed.  [OCRerr] .1336            Normed.  Precision  .6180


                           9     200       .3539    106      200       .2448
           IRE-3         71      382       .2503    153      106       .2044
           QOlS         212      106       .1630    189      382       .1815
           6 rel.       309      71H       .1210    283      71H       .1390
                        498      85A       .0563    301      85A       .1315
                        691      72[OCRerr]       .0000    669      72+       .0000

                       Normed.  Recall  .6191       Normed.  Recall .6382
                      Normed.  Precision .2889     Normed.  Precision .2141


            Retrieval Results for Two Individual Requests Comparing Stem
                                     with Thesaurus


                                         Fig.  29

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