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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even if the integer was previously in use to identify another
tree; the old tree is lost in this case. If the letter "P" is
used, in addition to specifying a definition valid for this run,
a deck of binary cards is also punched which may later be added to
the deck of the subprogram TRECND in link 102 to permanently alter
the standard tree types. The "T" or "P" should be followed by
a set of integers, separated by cozmnas, which identify the `1key11
nodes of the new tree type. Usually there is only one key node.
e) the following additional fonnat requirements should be noted.
Blanks are completely forbidden except in the BCD name field.
The occurrence of a blank ends the definition. To continue a
definition from one card to the next, a minus sign (-) should be
punched as the last non-blank character of the first card, and
the next card should be started with five blanks and an asterisk
in columns 1-6. Punching of the tree definition should be
resumed in column 7.
Consider the follcwing examples. Assume that "information1t is
represented by concept 114, "data" by 53, "retrieval" 26, and
t1information retrieval" is to be defined concept 301. Note that
tree type 1 is : l?'E and type 3 is:
26 (V) l[OCRerr][OCRerr][OCRerr]O2 ([OCRerr]
To define tree type 3, one could write:
TYPE3 D3( `V')/13( `[OCRerr]`)//[OCRerr]3Tl
and to define type 1:
*£xk'[OCRerr]l /I[OCRerr]ITl
This tree would match all the following sentences if the appropriate
concept numbers are assigned to the nodes (nun[OCRerr]bering the trees 10
and ll, and naming them INFRET):
INFRET=30l(26)/(53,l14)[OCRerr]l/l0, 3+
Infoz[OCRerr]nation retrieval is useful,
Data retrieval is useful,