SP500207 NIST Special Publication 500-207: The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1) Appendix C: System Features appendix National Institute of Standards and Technology Donna K. Harman IV. What machine did you conduct tl)e TREC experilnent oii'? How much RAM did it have? 56 Ml)ytes What w[OCRerr]'[OCRerr] the clock rate of [OCRerr]e CPU? 28 MIPS V. Some system.'; are research pr()t()types and others are commerci[OCRerr][OCRerr]. To help compare [OCRerr]ese systems: 1. Flow much "software en&2ineen'ig" went ilito the development of your system? A lot 2. (jivell appropriate resources, could your system be made to run faster? By how much (estimate)? hase IR system is very inefticient flow 3. What features is your system missing that it would benefit by if it had them? There is still a lot ([OCRerr]f room for improvement of NLP pr([OCRerr]ram[OCRerr]; more time and experiments are re(lllired 479