ISR11
Scientific Report No. ISR-11 Information Storage and Retrieval
Operating Instructions for the SMART Text Processing and Document Retrieval System
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M. E. Lesk
Harvard University
Gerard Salton
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3 must match a word with either concept 22 or lO[OCRerr]. The structural
and syntactic data are supplied, as usual, from the tree type to
be specified later.
d) following the dollar sign ($) ending the node conditions fields,
a final, miscellaneous field appears. This field specifies
whether trees or types are being defined, what types if any are
being used in the tree definitions, and what the serial number(s)
of the output tree(s) are.
If trees, rather than types, are being defined, the dollar sign
($) is followed with a set of tree specifications, separated by
commas. Each specification consists of a type number, identifying
the standard type which supplies the syntactic and structural data,
and a serial number code. The type number is simply an integer,
identifying the tree in Table 6. It is followed immediately by
the serial number code, which is one of the following:
i) + (plus sign) indicating a serial number one greater
than the last serial number assigned;
ii) * (asterisk) indicating a serial number equal to the last
serial number assigned;
iii) I (slash) followed by an integer, which assigns this
integer as a serial number.
If the syntactic and structural data are supplied with the tree
definition, instead of from a type, the type number in the tree
specification should be explicitly set to zero. Any number of tree
specifications may be given, separated by commas, to define several
trees at once. For example, one can simultaneously define trees
to represent "information retrieval is ..." and 11retrieving
information by ..." in this manner.
If a new type is defined, this last field should end with an
integer followed by either "T" or "P". This declares the structure
and syntactic conditions defined on this code to be a standard
tree type, numbered with the integer provided. This rule applies