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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Diane Kelly, Jimmy Lin
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and ``Other'' questions organized around a

Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Jimmy Lin, Diane Kelly
The TREC 2006 question answering track contained two tasks: a main task and a complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) task. As in 2005, the main task

NIST Standard Reference Materials Catalog 2004

Author(s)
J W. Thomas, Yvonne Branden, R D. Howard
This catalog provides technical and general ordering information for the Standard Reference Materials [SRMs] and Reference Materials [RMs] currently available

Forum Report: Permissive Metric Only Labeling

Author(s)
Kenneth S. Butcher
Report on the Forum on Metric-only Labeling held on November 7, 2002, in Washington, DC. The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National

Household Weights and Measures (NIST SP 430) 2004

Author(s)
Kenneth S. Butcher
The purpose of this publication is to present in a convenient form the weights and measures tables most useful for household purposes, together with associated

Wavelengths of Six Times Ionized Germanium, GeVII

Author(s)
Larissa Podobedova, A N. Ryabtsev
The compilation of the wavelengths of the GeVII spectra is carried out for the NIST Atomic Spectra Data Base on the World Wide Web. This compilation is based on

Atomic Data for Lighting Applications

Author(s)
Gillian Nave, Craig J. Sansonetti, Joseph Reader
A major objective of our research program is the observation of spectra of rare earth elements in support of our program of atomic data measurements for

Calibration of Water Permeation Tubes

Author(s)
Gregory E. Scace, W. Wyatt Miller
NIST provides traceability of permeation tube humidity generators to national humidity standards by measuring the water permeation rate of permeation tubes

Guided Data Capture (GDC) Software

Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, R C. Wilhoit, Qian Dong, Michael D. Frenkel
The program provides software tools to ease capture (compilation) of experimental thermodynamic and transport property data from the literature for pure