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To: David Graff <graff@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
From: Jonathan Fiscus <jonathan.fiscus@nist.gov>
Subject: Re: Question about chronological ordering of data
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 07:29:01 -0400
David Graff wrote,
> I gather that people are generally treating the data on a
> file-by-file basis, so the story sequence can simply be defined as
> "stories in file 1, then stories in file 2, then..." etc. The fact
> that "file N" and "file N+1" might actually overlap in terms of the
> date and time that they were recorded is, as I understand it, a
> relatively minor detail that can be ignored for the sake of
> simplifying the research tasks in this project.
>
> Am I wrong?
No, you're absolutely right. The benefit gained by sorting stories by
docno will be small, although we do recognize the orders may be
different.
We need to modify the spec to say that source files are to be processed
in chronological order.
Jon
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