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NIST Special Publication 500-215: The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
Appendix A: TREC-2 Results
Appendix
National Institute of Standards and Technology
D. K. Harman
tilts - Siemens Corporate Researchq Inc.
[ Summary Statistics
Run Number siems2-fuIl, automatic
Num of Queries 50
Total number of documents over all queries
Retrieved: 50000
Relevant: 10785
Rel[OCRerr]ret: 8068
`call Level_Averages
Recall Precision
0.00 0.1964
0.10 0.5166
0.20 0.5267
0.30 0.4808
0.40 0.4244
0.50 0.3810
0.60 0.3088
0.70 0.2418
0.80 0.1416
0.90 0.0513
1.00 0.0000
ige precision over all
mt docs
riterpolated 0.3408
Document Level Averages
Precision
At 5 docs 0.6000
At 10 docs 0.5860
At 15 docs 0.5733
At 20 docs 0.5600
At 30 docs 0.5447
At 100 docs 0.4690
At 200 docs 0.4030
At 500 docs 0.2606
At 1000 docs 0.1614
R-Precision (precision after R
docs retrieved (where R is
the number of relevant docu-
ments))
Fxact 0.3938
Level Averages NORMAL DEVIATE - Fallout-Recall
Recall
) 0.7722
) 0.7163
) 0.7763
) 0.7763
) 0.7763
Ol 0.02 0.16 0.4
0.2
2 0.98
1 0.84
0 0.5 0
Recall-Precision Curve
1
0.8
0.6
Precision
0.4
0.2
I I
0
1
0.8
0.6
Recall
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
Recall
Fallout-Recall Curve
I I
I I
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2
-1 0.16 Fallout x 100
-2 0.02
-3
-3 -2 -1 0 2 3
0.001