IRS13 Appendix B appendix Harvard University Gerard Salton Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. B-i Appendix B Request Texts The text of each request constituting the set of 35 used in the texts on the ADI documentation collection is here given. Nearly all tests use the requests exactly as stated, and the hand modifications indicated (mainly weight increases on important request words) are used only in tests reported in section X. Original Query Modified Query QAl What problems and concerns QAl What problems and concerns are there in making up des- are there in making up des- criptive titles. What dif- criptive titles, that is, in ficulties are involved in devising names and abbrev- automatically retrieving arti- iations for journals and or- des from approximate titles. qanizations. What is the usual relevance of What is the usual relevance the content of articles to of the content of articles to their titles. their titles. QA2 How can actually pertinent QA2 How can actually pertinent data, as opposed to refer- data be retrieved automat- ences or entire articles ically in response to infor- themselves, be retrieved mation requests. automatically in response to information requests. QA3 What is information science. Give definitions where possible. QA4 Image recognition and any QA4 Image recognition and any other methods of automatically other methods of automat- transforming printed text into ically transforming printed computer-ready form. text into computer ready form.