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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VII-5L+
Performance Differences,
+ Thesaurus Superior,
Collection Input and Evaluation - - Stem Superior
Thesaurus Type Measure Cosine Cosine
Numeric Logical
IRE-3 Abstract Normed. Recall + .03l[OCRerr] + .0290
31+ (Thesaurus-3) Normed. Precision + .0636 + .01+07
Requests
CRAN-l Abstract Normed. Recall + .0193 + .0332
1+2 (Thesaurus-3) Normed. Precision + .021+8 + .0559
Requests
Text Normed. Recall + .01+27 + .0121+
(Thesaurus-l) Normed. Precision + .0700 - .0156
ADI Text Normed. Recall - .0005 - .0811
35 (Thesaurus-SAl) Normed. Precision - .0132 - .0916
Requests
Abstract Normed. Recall + .01+15 + .01+97
(Thesaurus-l) Normed. Precision + .071+3 + .0602
Performance Differences Between Stem and Thesaurus Taken
From Figs. 5 and 6 Using the Normalized Measures,
Showing the Results for Numeric (Weighted) and Logical Vectors
Fig. 32