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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
I'D. QUERY CONSTRU[OCRerr]ON[OCRerr][OCRerr]AUTOMATICALIN BUILT QUERIES [OCRerr]OUTING)
[ SYSThM NAME [OCRerr] Dortmund [ Cornell [_Berkeley J_Rutgers [OCRerr] Siemens [OCRerr] UMASS i:[OCRerr][OCRerr]
F Automatically Built Queries (routing) Yes None [1] NM
Topic Fields Used Everything except Everything except
____________________________________ Defmitions Defmitions All See [1) ____
212/50 (crnlRl)
Total Computer Time to Build 28/50 for each 50/50 (crnlCl) 0.7 seconds per 4623 for
(cpu seconds) query per query query 50 queries
Me[OCRerr]hods Used in Building Query
- Terms Selected from (*) 1, 3 1, 3 1 3
- Term Weighting with weights based
on (*) 1, 2 1, 2 1 3
- Phrase Extraction from (*) 1, 3 1, 3 No No
- Syntactic Parsing of (*) No No
- Word Sense Disambiguation using (*) ________________ No No
- Proper Noun Identification Algorithm
from (*) No No
- Tokenizer from (*) _______________ _______________ No No
-- Which Patterns?
- Heuristic Associations to add terms
from (*) No No
History of term History of term
- Expansion of Queries Using occurrence in occurence in No No
Previously Constructed Data Structure relevant docs relevant docs
-- Which Structure?
- Automatic Addition of Boolean
Connectors Proximity Qperators
Using Information from (*) No No
Additional term
specific weights None
- Other
added for 2nd
________________ routing run
(1) Topic (2) All training Documents
(3) Documents with relevance judgements