SP500215 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 IIB. QUERY CONSTRUCTION--MANUALLY CONSTRUCTED QUERIES (ADHOC) -- but this is merely the fact of the matter: the people who rendered judgments about the CLARIT-nominated query terms happened to be computer experts not require special expertise of any sort. Lual queries are constructed by correcting the query terms nominated via automatic query construction. Team members analyzed the output of the automat leleted/corrected any parser errors, (2) adjusted Importance coefficients in situations where the weighting heuristics fail, (3) corrected errors in the applicati( ition heuristic, and (4) added additional relevant terms where appropriate. (New or additional terms were rarely added.)