IRS13
Scientific Report No. IRS-13 Information Storage and Retrieval
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Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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SUMMARY
fr[OCRerr]PORTS ON EVALUATION PROCEDURE AND RESULTS 1965-1967
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I. KEEN, E. M
`1Test Environment"
1. Introduction . * . * * *
2. Document Collections and Search Requests
3. Relevance Decisions * * * *
[OCRerr]. Text Experiments
A) Experimental Procedures .
B) Variables Tested * * . *
C) Vocabularies and Index Language Devices
5. Relevance Grade Test Results * *
6. Request and Collection Comparisons
A) Request Preparation . e *
B) Specific and General Requests .
C) Collection Comparisons
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References I-[OCRerr]8
II. KEEN, E. M
"Evaluation Parameters"
1. Introduction * * * * * * *
2. Purposes, Viewpoints and Properties of Performance
Measures * * * * * * *
3. Measures for Ranking Systems * * * *
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