SP500207
NIST Special Publication 500-207: The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1)
Appendix C: System Features
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Donna K. Harman
1. How much ".`;oflw[OCRerr]ire ellgilleerillg" went into the development of your sy.[OCRerr]tem?
4(J h([OCRerr]urs ([OCRerr]f new developmellt, 1)eyond using word pairing tools that were developed
earlier over a peri([OCRerr] of years.
2. Given appropn'aie reN()urce.[OCRerr], could your sy.[OCRerr]Iein be made to run f[OCRerr][OCRerr]ter? By how much
(e.';Iiinale)?
Yes, search time could l)e reduced, hut a reliahle estimate of how much cannot he
made at this time.
3. What features is your system missing (hal it would benefil by it' it had them?
Phrase weighting
Term weighting and auxiliary single term search
Stemming
Removal of pair order etTects
Shortest path network search
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