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To: TDT Distrib <tdt-distrib@ldc.upenn.edu>
From: Jonathan Fiscus <jonathan.fiscus@nist.gov>
Subject: Re: Hierarchical Topic Detection
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:39:35 -0400

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Folks,

Attached is a preliminary description of the HTD task. This should not
be construed as a final definition, but rather a starting point for the
discussion.

Jon

Jonathan Fiscus wrote:
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> Folks,
>
> I'd like to start a dialogue with anyone interested in hierarchical
> topic detection: methods and metrics. Are there any interested
> parties? At the last TDT meeting, we discussed several possibilities
> (See the attached powerpoint slides Rich Schwartz and I developed).
>
> We (Audrey Le and I) have begun some initial experiments by implementing
> a DAG structure that permits cross linking of topics (option 1 from the
> foils) and an infrastructure to compare the reference and system
> generated DAGs.
>
> Before we go to the effort of formalize this new evaluation protocol and
> produce exportable code, I'm looking for some customers to work with.
> Anyone interested?
>
> Regards,
> Jon

Attachment: HTDEval-proposal-v0.1.doc (application/msword)

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