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To: allan@cs.umass.edu, graff@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
From: Jon Yamron <Jon@dragonsys.com>
Subject: Re: A TDT question requiring some judgement? -Reply
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 17:18:22 -0500
OK, Rich says it should be BRIEF, James says it should be YES. I say it should be NO.
Despite mentioning many of the relevant words, it is a joke and not on topic. Our systems
will probably return it erroneously; the sponsors will then decide whether we should
incorporate satire detection so that news readers don't waste their time with this stuff.
This kind of stuff is out there, and we should see what happens when our systems have to
confront it.
- Jon
>>> James Allan <allan@cs.umass.edu> 04/03/98 04:49pm >>>
Suppose for the moment that the story were genuine rather than satirical. Would it then get
a YES rather than a BRIEF? (I think so.) Given that, I'd tag it as YES. TDT2 does not
include satire-detection. Perhaps we could include that in TDT3.
The only advantage of BRIEF is that BRIEF stories are generally excluded from evaluation
(or were in TDT1), so what someone does with the story doesn't matter. But I don't think
that BRIEF is very accurate.
-- james
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