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Table 1 Mean Reciprocal Rank for 1,000 queries (focused search evaluation) measured for 13 search methods.

From: Objective and automated protocols for the evaluation of biomedical search engines using No Title Evaluation protocols

Mean Average Rank

Mean Reciprocal Rank

Search Method

Stemmer

Twease Slider Position

2.028

0.493

BM25ec

Porter

0

2.054

0.487

BM25ec

Paice-Husk

0

1.787

0.560

BM25ec

None

0

1.750

0.571

BM25ec

None

20

1.724

0.580

BM25ec

None

40

1.732

0.577

BM25ec

None

60

1.732

0.577

BM25ec

None

80

1.728

0.579

BM25ec

None

100

1.737

0.576

BM25ec

None

120

1.752

0.571

BM25ec

None

140

1.755

0.570

BM25ec

None

160

1.760

0.568

BM25ec

None

180

1.767

0.566

BM25ec

None

200