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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Thus, to define an output concept nun[OCRerr]ber of 285, and to attach it
to node nun[OCRerr]ber 3 instead of the keynode, and also to double its
weight, the user punches =285.3.*6 as an output concept number
field. If, in addition, the concept number on node 2 is to be
moved onto nodes 4 and 5 with half weight, another output concept
nun[OCRerr]ber field would be added, the total reading:
=285.3.*6=N2.4.5.*3
c) it is also necessary to supply the conditions specified for
each node. For each node ex&ctly one node condition fiel& exists,
except that conditions need not be specified for the last node
(and adjacent nodes) if a definition using a tree type is en[OCRerr]loyed,
and the syntactic and structural criteria supplied by the type are
all that is needed for these trailing nodes.
The first node condition field begins immediately after the output
concept number fields. Each node condition field is followed by
a slash, (I) except for the last node condition field which is
followed by a dollar sign ($). If the tree is being defined
according to a standard type, oniy the semantic information need
be supplied in the node condition fields. If a type is being
defined, however, or if a tree is being defined without the use of
a type, all information `mist be supplied for each node. In this
case, there [OCRerr]st be exactly as many node condition fields as there
are nodes in the final tree.
If structural data is being specified, all but exactly one node
condition field should begin with either an I or a D followed by
an integer. The node whose condition field does not begin with
an I or D is taken as the root of the criterion tree. A node whose
condition field begins with tInli niist match a node which is
descended from (direct or indirect ancestor) the correspondent of
node n[OCRerr][OCRerr]er n. A node whose condition field begins with "[OCRerr]"
must match a node which is the direct (first-generation) descendant
of the node which matches node n. "Descend'1 is understood in the