Numbers of runs, etc

[Paul Over <over@nist.gov>]

Hi,

Feedback about number of intended runs has been small but
it seems 4 runs for search (regarless of whether interactive
or manual) and 2 for feature extraction will be enough. 

If you have one or two important runs beyond those limits, you 
can include them in your submission, and we will do our best to 
squeeze them into the judging depending on the time we have, the 
degree of overlap, etc. 

The requirement that every run using ASR (X+ASR) be accompanied 
by another run (X only, or ASR only) has been relaxed to be
a recommendation. 

The question about whether the use of features other than ASR gets 
you greater effectiveness than just ASR is still an important one, 
but some groups may want to use theirruns to focus on combinations 
of non-ASR features. (At least one ASR-only run might be useful in 
those cases as a baseline)

The webpage will be updated today.

- Paul
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