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To: Re: TDT terminology tension -- "condition", "topic", "training"
From: George Doddington <doddington@nist.gov>
Subject: Re: TDT terminology tension -- "condition", "topic", "training"
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:06:42 -0400

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There seems to be excess residual entropy in terminology usage, so
let me try to clarify. For purposes of TDT at least:

* A CONDITION is simply a restrictional or selectional constraint
placed on data to be processed and/or analyzed.

* A TOPIC, for the topic tracking task, is defined by the specified
set of (training) stories that discuss it.

* The TRAINING epoch is the set of stories that may be used by
a system to learn to do topic tracking for a given topic.
It is a function of topic and training language.
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George Doddington in McLean, VA: doddington@nist.gov or 703/556-3434

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