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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
r[OCRerr]q.iiltq. - Advanced Decision Systems
Summary Statistics
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Total number of documents over all queries
Retrieved 40423
Relevant: 5677
Rel[OCRerr]ret: 822
Document Level Averages
Precision
At 5 docs 0.0560
At 10 docs 0.0480
At 15 docs 0.0573
At 20 docs 0.0640
At 30 docs 0.0687
At 100 docs 0.0468
At 200 docs 0.0336
At 500 docs 0.0239
At 1000 docs 0.0164
R-Precision (precision after R
docs retrieved (where R is
the number of relevant docu-
ments))
Exact 0.0390
Run Number
Num of Queries
Recall Level Averages
Recall Precision
0.00 0.1620
0.10 0.0542
0.20 0.0468
0.30 0.0273
0.40 0.0201
0.50 0.0056
0.60 0.0056
0.70 0.0000
0.80 0.0000
0.90 0.0000
1.00 0.0000
[OCRerr]erage precision over all
levant docs
)n-interpolated 0.0195
Precision
iout Level Averages NORMAL DEVIATE - Fallout-Recall Recall
lout Recall ooi 0.02 0.16 0.5 0.84 0.98 0.9[OCRerr]999
0000 0.0236
0020 0.0311 2 0.98
0040 0.0346
0060 0.0389 1 0.84
0080 0.0429
0 0.5
`0100 0.0457
0120 0.0476 -1 0.16
0140 0.0497
)0160 0.0526 -2 0.02
)0180 0.0539 -3 0.001
)0200 0.0553 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
Recall-Precision Curve
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0.6
0.4
0.2
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
Recall
Fallout-Recall Curve
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Fallout x 100
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