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To: Doug Oard <oard@glue.umd.edu>
From: George Doddington <doddington@nist.gov>
Subject: Re: Clarification of tracking
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:37:34 -0500
> IMHO, if your processing is untouched by human hands once you
> begin working with the evaluation material, all materials that you are
> allowed to use should be allowable for any purpose. If, on the other
> hand, there is even a single manual step in the process of identifying
> possibly relevant documents (for example, maual formulation of a query),
> then even removing those documents would not be permissible.
Yes, this is correct.
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George Doddington at NIST: doddington@nist.gov or 301/975-3261
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