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
I. How much "soflw[OCRerr]'ire efl(TiIleerin([OCRerr]"' went into the developmeiit of your system?
N([OCRerr]t much, time wa% spent to truncate record slzes to save space and fit certain
structures in memory; replace 5()[OCRerr]C linked lists with arrays.
2. Given appropri[OCRerr]ite resources, could your system be made to run faster? By how much
(estimate)?
Yes. 5([OCRerr]1(N[OCRerr]%. Lots ([OCRerr]f code was translated from PASCAL to C and UL[OCRerr]ed as is.
3. Wh[OCRerr]'u features is your system missing that it would benefit by if it had them?
Dedicated SPARCstation.
More RAM.
More disk space.
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