ISR11
Scientific Report No. ISR-11 Information Storage and Retrieval
Operating Instructions for the SMART Text Processing and Document Retrieval System
chapter
M. E. Lesk
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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II-2~
Normal
Specification Value Meaning Value
LEA[OCRerr]WT x
CROSWT x
BODYWT x
TITLWT
x
x is the weight attached to
concepts derived from hierar-
chical expansion by sons
x is the weight attached to
concepts derived from hierar-
chical expansion by cross-
references
x is the weight attached to
concepts derived from the
body of the text (usually
left at 1.0, unless only
titles are to be processed,
in which case set to 0.0)
x is the weight attached to
concepts derived from the
title of the text
0.0
0.0
1.0
1.0
PRNVEC
Concept vectors are printed
for all requests and docu-
ments
off
MODERD COS Choose mode of request-docu COS-
OVLAP ment correlation
CUTRD x The cutoff for request-docu 0 35-
ment correlation is set to
x
ANSWER SHORT
MEDIUM
LONG
DOCDOC
MODEDD COS
OVLAP
The answers to the requests
are printed in a condensed
format, a moderately detailed
format, or an expanded format,
respectively
The list of answers is
expanded through document-
document correlation
The mode of document-document
correlation is set to cosine
or overlap respectively
off
off
COS
Table 2 (continued)