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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Hierarchy-3,
Collection Thesaurus-3 `1Parents"
and Relevant Relevant
Request Rank Document Corr. Rank Document Corr.
24 221 .2911 1 221 .4233
IRE-3 58 080 .2275 10 080 .3095
Q006 65 126 .2210 16 126 .2506
5 rel. 86 28B .2032 34 079 .2112
397 079 .0550 37 28B .2108
Normed. Recall .8413 Normed. Recall .9786
Normed. Precision .4012 Normed. Precision .7394
Hierarchy-3
Thesaurus-3 11A11 Relations'1
106 200 .2448 1 106 .7853
IRE-3 153 106 .2044 3 382 .7448
QOlS 189 382 .1815 14 85A .6516
6 rel. 283 71H .1390 47 200 .5203
301 85A .1315 94 71H .3916
669 72+ .0000 492 72+ .0647
Normed. Recall .6382 Normed. Recall .8649
Normed. Precision .2141 Normed. Precision .6480
Retrieval Results of Two Individual Non-Staff
Prepared Requests Comparing Thesaurus with Hierarchy
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