Document Searching of EPPS Test Result Using Indexing Method

Abstract

Abstract This study focuses on documents searching on the EPPS test result, mainly administered in the education sector for selecting prospective students in universities’ admissions process. There has been a considerable increase of admission data along with annually administered admission test for prospective students in every beginning of an academic year. Some faculties may administer the EPPS test in the second stage test of admission process after the prospective students pass the first stage in addition to having the general admission test. These several tests lead to a huge data accumulation with different information, making it difficult for the organizers to locate the document containing 15 aspects of required information in a comprehensive information display. Thus, it is necessary to apply an indexing method by having a predetermined index to retrieve required information in a particular document or to find other related documents by way of indexing method. This research used 74 pdf documents as the dataset. In particular, 60 datasets were used as references to retrieve phrases on the specified data, and 14 datasets were used to test data. The results revealed the most significant data with an average precision of 0.89, recall of 0.93 and f-measureof 0.91.