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From: Yiming Yang <yiming@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: RE: [from James Allan:] Re: Ontopic both YES and BRIEF
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:40:39 -0400
I agree with both James and Ralf.
- Yiming
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> From: James Allan <allan@cs.umass.edu>
> To: TDT Distrib <tdt-distrib@ldc.upenn.edu>
> Subject: Re: Ontopic both YES and BRIEF
> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:00:02 EDT."
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> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:56:46 -0400
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> > At the last TDT meeting, we agreed that stories marked with BRIEF would
> > now be considered ontopic in addition to stories marked YES. The
> > question I have is with regard to the tracking task: Should stories
> > marked as BRIEF be permitted to be training stories?
> >
> > I'm assuming the answer is yes. Any dissent?
>
> I think that'd be a mistake. Tracking (etc) BRIEF stories is fine,
> but it's reasonable to expect that a topic would be started with some
> genuine on-topic material. If a BRIEF story were used as a seed for
> tracking then I think Ralf is correct: the portion that's on topic
> should be specified.
>
> So, I vote that the topic be defined by YES stories only.
>
> -- james
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