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<DOCNO> SP500215 </DOCNO>         
<TITLE> NIST Special Publication 500-215: The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2) </TITLE>         
<SUBTITLE> Appendix B: System Features </SUBTITLE>         
<TYPE> Appendix </TYPE>         
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<PUBLISHER> National Institute of Standards and Technology </PUBLISHER> 
<EDITOR1> D. K. Harman </EDITOR1> 
<COPYRIGHT MTH="March" DAY="" YEAR="1994" BY="National Institute of Standards and Technology">   
 
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[EM NAME                    [OCRerr]  GE      [1] J CLARIT        [OCRerr]   LSI          [  IINC     J_NYU            [OCRerr]   SYRACUSE       [OCRerr]     QUEE]

*d List                      Yes             No              Yes, SMART       Yes         Yes             Yes (Stage 2)        Yes

[OCRerr]r of Words                  5         [2]                   570              375         380             48 (Stage 2)         630

led Vocabulary               No              No                               No          No              No                   No

ng                           None                            Yes              Yes         Yes             Yes                  Yes

lard Algorithms                                              SMART            Lovins      No              Kelly &amp; Stone [13]   Porter

ihological analysis         _______________  Yes        [3]                   No          Yes                                  No

                             Document
eighting                     Ranking Gnly    Yes        [4]  "ltc"      [10]  tf, idf     Yes             Yes         [14]     Yes

Discovery                    No              Yes                              Yes         Yes                                  Yes

                                             simplex noun                                 NP's, VP's,     Proper nouns &amp;
of phrase                   _______________  phrases    [5]  ______________ _________     Others          complex nominals     2-word

tical Methods                                No                               Yes         Partially       No                   Yes

.ctic Methods                                Yes        [6]  _______________ __________   Yes             Yes

Ic parsing                   No              Yes, see ahove                   No          Yes             Yes (partially) [15] No

ense Disambiguation          No              Yes        [7]                   No          No              Yes         [16]     No

ic Associations              No              No                               No          Yes             Yes                  No

                                                                                          Synonymy,       Semantic relations
 Definition                                                                   _________   specializations between concepts

hecking
Manual Correction)           No              No                               No          No              No                   No

`,Correction                 No              No                               No          No              No                   No

Noun Identification          No              Yes        [8]                   No          Partial         Yes                  No

`2r                          No              No                               No          Yes             Yes                  No

.`h Patterns                                                                              year numbers    Dates

Manually Indexed Terms       No              No                               N/A         No              No                   No

rechniques to Build Data
[OCRerr]res                                         Yes        [9]  Yes        [11]              _________________           [17]

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