ISR11 Scientific Report No. ISR-11 Information Storage and Retrieval An Experimental Investigation of Automatic Hierarchy Generation chapter G. Blomgren A. Goodman L. Kelly Harvard University Gerard Salton Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. vi:i-16 The following printout constitutes output from an actual computer run using the above data. Output from Hand-Constructed Example The List Structure from which the Hierarchy is Constructed Cutoff = (Irrelevant) CONCEPT NUMBER 1 CONCEPT NUMBER 7 PARENTS PARENTS BROTHERS 2 BROTHERS SONS 3 1 10 SONS CONCEPT NUMBER CONCEPT NUMBER 8 PARENTS PARENTS [OCRerr] BROTHERS 1 BROTHERS 3 SONS SONS 9 CONCEPT NUMBER 3 CONCEPT NUMBER 9 PARENTS 1 PARENTS 4 8 BROTI[OCRerr]RS 8 BROTHERS 10 SONS 6 SONS CONCEPT NUMBER CONCEPT NUMBER 10 PARENTS 1 PARENTS 1 6 BROTHERS 7 BROTHERS 9 SONS 6 89 SONS CONCEPT NJ[OCRerr][OCRerr]ER 6 CONCEPT NUMBER 11 PARENTS 3 4 PARENTS BROTHERS 11 BROTHERS 6 SONS 10 SONS 12 CONCEPT NUMBER 12 PARENTS 11 BROTHERS SONS All Other Concepts have No Parents, No Brothers, and No Sons.