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To: Rich Schwartz <schwartz@bbn.com>
From: Doug Oard <oard@glue.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: TDT3 dry run
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:49:13 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Rich Schwartz wrote:
> If it is more powerful to use a tightly coupled system, as Doug Oard says
> is true in CLIR, then people should try that, but surely we would want to
> compare their results with those of a factored system. I, for one, am not
> sure which approach (tightly coupled or factored) would be better -- there
> are arguments both ways and it depends on how good each of the sytems is--
> but it's clearly one of the right questions to ask.
Just to be clear, I agree with Rich that this is an excellent question.
We do know some conditions under which a ticghly coupled approach beats a
factored system, but we knw plenty that come out the other way as well.
Doug
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