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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
HB. QUERY CONSThUCfloN[OCRerr][OCRerr]MANUALLY CONS'I1LUCI'ED QUERIES (ADHOC)
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The system does this. It was possible for searchers to influence the weights, but I believe none of them did so (they were not told how to).
The default operator (when searcher didn't speci[OCRerr] an op) was a "best-match" opeator utilizing Robertson/Sparck-Jones F4 with a within[OCRerr]document 1
frequency factor and an overall document length factor.