System Summary and Timing
  Organization Name: Information Technology Institute, Singapore
  List of Run ID's: itidp1, itidp2

  Construction of Indices, Knowledge Bases, and other Data Structures 

    Methods Used to build Data Structures 

    - Length (in words) of the stopword list: 429 
    - Controlled Vocabulary? :  0 
    - Stemming Algorithm: Porter's              
    - Term Weighting: idf 
    -  Phrase Discovery? :  No            
    -  Syntactic Parsing? : No 
    -  Word Sense Disambiguation? : No 
    -  Heuristic Associations (including short definition)? :  No 
    -  Spelling Checking (with manual correction)? :  No 
    -  Spelling Correction? :  No 
    -  Proper Noun Identification Algorithm? :  No 
    -  Tokenizer? :  No             
    -  Manually-Indexed Terms? :  No 
    -  Other Techniques for building Data Structures:  No 

    Statistics on Data Structures built from TREC Text

    - Inverted index           
      - Run ID :  itidp1, itidp2 
      - Total Storage (in MB): 900 (only rel docs and test data) 
      - Total Computer Time to Build (in hours): 100 
      - Automatic Process? (If not, number of manual hours): yes 
      - Use of Term Positions? : no 
      - Only Single Terms Used? :  yes 
    - Clusters           
    - N-grams, Suffix arrays, Signature Files           
    - Knowledge Bases            
      - Use of Manual Labor                  
    - Special Routing Structures           
    - Other Data Structures built from TREC text           

  Query construction

    Automatically Built Queries (Routing)

    - Topic Fields Used:  Used training documents only 
    - Average Computer Time to Build Query (in cpu seconds): 1300 
    - Method used in Query Construction          
      - Terms Selected From            
        - Topics:  no 
        - All Training Documents: yes 
      - Term Weighting with Weights Based on terms in            
        - Topics: no 
        - All Training Documents: yes 

  Searching

    Search Times

      - Run ID :  itidp1, itidp2
      - Computer Time to Search (Average per Query, in CPU seconds): 300 

    Machine Searching Methods

      - Vector Space Model? : yes 
      - Boolean Matching? : yes 

    Factors in Ranking

      - Term Frequency? : yes 
      - Inverse Document Frequency? : yes 
      - Other Term Weights? : yes 
      - Information Theoretic Weights? : yes 
      - Document Length? : yes 

    Machine Information

    - Machine Type for TREC Experiment: Sun SPARC 10 
    - Was the Machine Dedicated or Shared: Shared  
    - Amount of Hard Disk Storage (in MB): 9000 
    - Amount of RAM (in MB): 80 
    - Clock Rate of CPU (in MHz): 55