SP500215 Appendix B: System Features Appendix National Institute of Standards and Technology D. K. Harman HA QUERY CONSThUCTION - A[OCRerr]MA11CALLY BUILT QUERIES (ADHOC) M NAME [OCRerr] GE [ CIARIT [ Lsl [OCRerr] HNC [OCRerr] NYU ] SYRACUSE [[OCRerr] QUEEt Turned in various runs Natural languas using everything but <title[OCRerr], <desc: is factors, definitions, Num, title, Topic, desc, nan, <nan>, <con litle, deac, nan, con litle, desc, nan, con All nationality desc, nan con [OCRerr]clean:<desc p.I.r Tim `0 B.Id 0.80 sec CPU time About 0.1 sec tsess than a Sec. 3 (average for c <0.1 iec per query per query [4] < 1 sec. 3.0 (Stage 1) query) 1[OCRerr]d to C*mslim[OCRerr] ighting tppic terms) Yes, for ranlting only Yes [1] Yes Not used Yes Yes traction Yes, for concepts only Not used Yes Yes No Parsing _______________ Yes [2] __________ Not used Yes Partial No Rule based syntactic ae Disambiguation category __________________ disambiguation Not used Yes No Unknown words [OCRerr]un Identification treated as proper nouns Partial Yes No Yes, part of the proper noun No Not used Yes identification al[OCRerr] No Year itterns? number Dates Assoriations No Not used Yes No tof Queries Yes (Stage 1); Yes vious Constmcted (partially for one clure Yes No Notused run-Stage2 Yes Automatic term ructure? expansion based on Term corpus associations dusters [[OCRerr]I Word-pafr phra C addition of Boolean rs/Proximity Operators No Not used Yes (Stage 1) Yes Similar terms in a given topic statement were Boolean operators on identified manually concepts portion of Syntactic for ineaact [3] topics phrases matching of concepts (Stage 2) None