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To: "'Hubert Jin'" <hjin@bbn.com>,
From: George Doddington <doddington@msn.com>
Subject: RE: TDT3, a variety of issues
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:41:39 -0800
>But if we are not allowed to use any information from not-on-topic
>stories, that will be artifically unfair, and against the reality. We
>will end up with algorithms that are not smart enough to take advantage
>of largely available information.
The use of off-topic stories is most definitely allowed. The point
of disallowing the use of off-topic stories that have been manually
certified as being off-topic is that it isn't practical. (I also agree
that such labelling is unlikely to be significant.)
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George Doddington in Orinda, CA. doddington@nist.gov 925/631-6628
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