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NIST Special Publication 500-215: The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
Appendix B: System Features
Appendix
National Institute of Standards and Technology
D. K. Harman
`IA. QUERY CONSTRUCIION -- AUTO[OCRerr]CALLY BUILT QUERIES (ADHOC)
`EM NAME [OCRerr] CITY [OCRerr] ERIM [OCRerr] TMC [OCRerr] CUHU J UCLA ] SEC [ ETh
Concept strings;
jelds Title and Concepts nationality strings All All Title and concepts ______ All
15 min. for initial
Dmputer Time to Build queries; 4 hours 10-20 ms
.`) < 1 second each - 2 seconds for optimization Negligable < 1 second each querv
[OCRerr] Used to Construct None
Weighting
on topic terms) No Yes, n[OCRerr]
Yes (adjacent
extraction words) __________ ___________________ _______ No
Yes, simple tag
ic Parsing _________________ identification No
;ense Disambiguation No
Noun Identification No
[OCRerr]r No
Patterns
ic Associations No
ion of Queries
[OCRerr]revious Constructed
[OCRerr]ructure No
Structure
[OCRerr]ic addition of Boolean
tors/Proximity Qperators No
Robertson/Sparck- IDF weights Robertson[OCRerr]parck-
Jones F4 predictive based on Jones F4 predictive
weights (approL collection weights (approL IDF
IDF in the absence frequencies in in the absence of
of relevance training docs for relevance No
___________________ information). routing db. information).