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To: James Allan <allan@cs.umass.edu>
From: Hubert Jin <hjin@bbn.com>
Subject: Re: Question about chronological ordering of data
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 17:46:41 -0400 (EDT)
Hi James,
Where is 'the index files provided by NIST' mentioned in your message?
Are they included in the 980522 release?
If they are not available at this time, we will just use the alphanumeric
sorting of the bndXXX files' names.
Thanks,
-Hubert
On Sun, 24 May 1998, James Allan wrote:
>
> It is worth noting that the official order of the files is *NOT* the
> alphanumeric sorting of the bndXXX files' names. Instead, it is the
> order specified in the index files provided by NIST for each task. I
> imagine those two possible orderings will be nearly identical, but it
> is not safe to assume so.
>
> -- james
>
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