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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
HE. QUERY CONS¶1tUCTION -- MANUAlLY CONSIItUCThD QUERIES (ROUTING)
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b) Word frequencies.
c) Topic weights (for ranking, manual correction).
(es--but this is merely the fact of the matter: the people who rendered judgments about the CLARIT-nominated query terms happened to be computer exp[OCRerr]
ocs not require special expertise of any sort.
a) Terms extracted from topic by naturalAanguage processing.
b) Statistics from the training documents used for IDF[11[OCRerr] scoring.
c) Terms extracted from relevant documents by natural-language processing and thesaurus extraction.
d) Additional terminology nominated by team members as appropriate to the topic.
with manual adhoc topics, manual routing queries reflect hand-correction of the output of the automatic query generating process. Correction took place prio
if the query vector with thesaurus terminology.