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In a stunning example of growing concern over technology and privacy in the workplace, The Los Angeles Times has recalled a foreign correspondent from its Moscow bureau for snooping into the electronic mail of his colleagues. The correspondent, Michael Hiltzik, a well-regarded journalist who joined The Times's Moscow b... | apositive_test_query0_00000 | |
say they wouldn't hire a programmer who couldn't break into any system." But as computers and networks extend their reach into global business, such attitudes may no longer suffice. "Information systems people should be held to a higher level of ethics than the general population, just as doctors and lawyers are," said... | apositive_test_query0_00001 | |
but even if it doesn't, just the fact that it got people interested is a good thing." Dietrich von Schwerdtner, director of computing services at Peddie, said that he had expected only about half of the faculty to use the new computer system consistently, but that nearly all teachers had found it to be helpful in one f... | apositive_test_query0_00002 | |
I saw were fairly current -- within the last two weeks -- and if I were young, mobile and willing to live in parts of the country where Starbuck's is never likely to open franchises, I might actually have some possibilities. There were some listings in my chosen field, Writing/Editing/Reporting/Narrating, as it is call... | negative_test_query0_00000 | |
biochemistry at the University of Maryland and an associate editor of the journal Analytical Chemistry, said Mr. Tanaka's and Dr. Fenn's work had given biologists a much more direct view of the chemical processes going on in a cell. Previously, for example, scientists studying an anticancer drug could look only at the ... | negative_test_query0_00001 | |
HERE in a sun-dappled realm of gated communities, where security guards see to it that tranquillity reigns, the men and women who run operations at some of the world's airports seemed singularly anxious. Dozens of airport executives had gathered within the serene perimeters of the Boca Raton Resort and Club for an even... | negative_test_query0_00002 | |
LEAD: Hopes for a political thaw here appear scattered by the icy winds of sectarianism that have made Northern Ireland a synonym for violence and despair. Hopes for a political thaw here appear scattered by the icy winds of sectarianism that have made Northern Ireland a synonym for violence and despair. Hopes in some ... | negative_test_query0_00003 | |
to assess microwave exposure needs to be addressed further.'' He said that ''although there are potentially large errors inherent in analytical methods, the fact is that assessment can be accomplished to any degree of accuracy provided one is willing to spend enough money.'' Omissions Criticized Another panelist, Dr. W... | apositive_test_query1_00000 | |
A study of women on Long Island has found no link between breast cancer and living near high-voltage power lines, extending a long trail of research that has failed to connect breast cancer on the island to an environmental cause. The report, to be published next week in The American Journal of Epidemiology, is also th... | apositive_test_query1_00001 | |
A new study commissioned by Britain's Department of Trade and Industry to measure the safety of hands-free devices for mobile telephones determined that the devices pose less risk to consumers by offering substantial reductions in radiation exposure compared with that of regular hand-held mobile phones. The new study c... | apositive_test_query1_00002 | |
fungus that also stunts growth and causes the leaves to yellow from the bottom up. N denotes plants that are not troubled by the root knot nematodes. TMV denotes that the plant resists tobacco mosaic virus, one of the worst as it is spread by insects feeding on other infected plants and by gardeners who smoke near thei... | negative_test_query1_00000 | |
Not long after Sunday's rowing events were over, and the American men's and women's eights won their heats in world-record times, high winds kicked up white-capped waves at the man-made lake outside Athens. On that same lake, several boats swamped and sank at last year's junior world rowing championships, so Olympic or... | negative_test_query1_00001 | |
To the Editor: I have researched the medical literature and communicated with leading researchers in "female androgen deficiency syndrome" (testosterone deficiency), and conducted workshops to educate women suffering from a decrease in the normal, essential levels of this hormone. "Male Hormone Molds Women, Too, in Min... | negative_test_query1_00002 | |
recent classified ads: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. M.B.A., C.P.A. Must be able to report one earnings figure while simultaneously looking at another; massage numbers; lobby; move debt off books; rally stockholders; defer income to a later quarter till the end of time. Ability to name holding companies after birds of prey ... | negative_test_query1_00003 | |
Chico Mendes was not an environmentalist in the traditional sense. It was only three years before his murder, which was 10 years ago this week, that he met environmentalists and learned with amazement that the Amazon Forest mattered to those far away. As head of Brazil's National Council of Rubber Tappers, his concerns... | apositive_test_query2_00000 | |
the last decade, most recently for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Next month in Puerto Rico, the Brazilians plan to train teams from six other Amazon Basin nations in the skills of tracking rain forest deforestation. For the project, the Pan Amazon Deforestation Study, NASA has purchased regional satel... | apositive_test_query2_00001 | |
LEAD: Imagine that there was a way to preserve endangered environments like the Amazon rain forest, one that also eased the foreign debt burden blocking third world development. Environmentalists and development proponents, often at odds, would cheer. Thanks to the Frank Weeden Foundation of Connecticut, there's no nee... | apositive_test_query2_00002 | |
finish your risk assessment? You don't need to analyze everything to death before you begin to take public health decisions about potential carcinogens." Agency officials said that in a few cases, elements of the new approach had already been used to decide how to treat one chemical or another. For example, some time a... | negative_test_query2_00000 | |
attacked the Russian lines. The rebels were repulsed by Russian 122-millimeter self-propelled artillery and tank fire, and the Russians say 150 rebels were killed. ''They did not think we would come here, and we did not think they would try to break through,'' Colonel Budanov said. There are three cemeteries near Duba-... | negative_test_query2_00001 | |
Michael Reiss, sat at the side of her bed and explained again that although she had breast cancer that had spread, it could still be treated. He recommended hormone-blocking drugs designed to interfere with the tumor-promoting estrogens made by her body. These medicines could slow, even stop the progression of the dise... | negative_test_query2_00002 | |
of the country, attention deficit disorder has become a frequent diagnosis for an unfocused child, and any stigma attached to the label has all but dissipated. In Greenwich, Conn., according to a report in The Hartford Courant, nearly one in three high school students in 1997 were in special education, most of them lea... | negative_test_query2_00003 | |
and then receive reimbursement of up to 59.5 percent from the state. ''There are people who think that if the school districts have to pay for preschool special education, they wouldn't classify as many children,'' said Dr. Donald R. Kusel, Superintendent of the public schools of the Tarrytowns. ''Our committees for pr... | apositive_test_query3_00000 | |
to disabled children in classrooms.'' While Mrs. Will agreed that ''considerable evidence exists'' to suggest that disabled students do better an integrated classes, she was cautious about the call for change pressed by the article's authors. ''We feel we need to see more studies, more models of how integration can wor... | apositive_test_query3_00001 | |
SHANNON WEESE, a 17-year-old student at the New York School for the Deaf here, is studying journalism and drama at Woodlands High School in nearby Greenburgh. In turn, 12 Woodlands students are meeting their foreign language requirements by studying American Sign Language taught by an instructor from Shannon's school. ... | apositive_test_query3_00002 | |
LEAD: BORON, a mineral long considered inessential to nutrition, apparently affects blood levels of certain hormones and may play a major role in preventing bone loss, Government scientists have reported. BORON, a mineral long considered inessential to nutrition, apparently affects blood levels of certain hormones and ... | negative_test_query3_00000 | |
America is finding it difficult to obtain the capital it needs to finance its own growth. As a result Brazil, like neighboring Argentina, has been forced to court Citic, the state-controlled China International Trust and Investment Corporation, in hopes that at least a small part of China's estimated $500 billion in fo... | negative_test_query3_00001 | |
death, the need for a reliable ethics. ''Even sane, functional people need principles to live by,'' Marinoff told me, his voice lowering without slowing in the sun-flooded courtroom, ''so we are offering what Socrates called the examined life, the chance to sit with a philosopher and ask what you really believe and mak... | negative_test_query3_00002 | |
COMPUTER components have changed over the years, but a PC today is typically 40 percent steel, 30 percent to 40 percent plastic, 10 percent aluminum and 10 percent other metals, including copper, gold, silver, cadmium and platinum. A monitor adds glass and lead to the components. If a computer cannot be resold or donat... | negative_test_query3_00003 | |
produced by conventional means. Unlike agricultural products, which are released into the environment, biotech drugs have not faced notably greater barriers to the market than conventional drugs. "The devil's in the implementation," said Jerry D. Caulder, chairman, president and chief executive of the Mycogen Corporati... | apositive_test_query4_00000 | |
THE scientific arguments in favor of the bovine growth hormone, which makes dairy cows into veritable milk machines, could hardly seem more logical: The hormone does not change the milk itself. It acts on the cow's brain, telling it to signal the mammary glands to go into overdrive, making them produce abundant quantit... | apositive_test_query4_00001 | |
bog plants need to be protected. Then a librarian appeared with "The Natural and Agricultural History of Peat-Moss or Turf-Bog," written by Andrew Steele of Edinburgh in 1826. (It's a signed copy.) Mr. Steele tells how "moss-water is antiseptic or preservative." And he quotes Capt. James Cook, who took some on his ship... | apositive_test_query4_00002 | |
LEAD: The Sungene Technologies Corporation of San Jose, Calif., won patent approval for a recipe of nutrients to help breed higher-yielding corn. The Sungene Technologies Corporation of San Jose, Calif., won patent approval for a recipe of nutrients to help breed higher-yielding corn. The recipe is used to promote soma... | negative_test_query4_00000 | |
Dr. WALTER H. MUNK, a geophysicist whose research has led to new understanding of the oceans, waves and tides and the rotation of the earth, will receive the Vetlesen Prize at Columbia University tomorrow evening. The $50,000 award, which has been called the Nobel Prize of earth sciences, was last given in 1987. It is ... | negative_test_query4_00001 | |
with county park pass and $7 without, but collected in summer months only. Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Pocantico Hills How kind of the Rockefeller family to let the rest of us traipse around their backyard. The extensive network of trails was originally developed for carriage use. Horses still share the gorgeous p... | negative_test_query4_00002 | |
parents of the children one evening a week. One mother from Merrick, whose 9-year-old son attended the course, said the one to two ratio of instructor to child was what made her son learn transitional and communication skills that he had found difficult with other teachers and counselors. ''They didn't just play ball,'... | negative_test_query4_00003 | |
the original flight, are particularly concerned with who would pay if the missed flight was the fault of security and not the airline. But another issue is the new procedure for searching bags, largely out of the owner's presence. The issue is so sensitive that there is even debate over who will tell the public. The ai... | apositive_test_query5_00000 | |
The crash of T.W.A. Flight 800 off Long Island last month has set off a new round of security discussions, inside the United States and on the international level after a meeting of G-7 countries on security held in Paris at the end of last month. From Rome to Athens, London to Paris, terrorism has taken a deadly toll ... | apositive_test_query5_00001 | |
by a passenger. The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Jane Garvey, said in a statement that the changes would ''bring security for air travelers in this country to a new level of effectiveness.'' The changes follow the recommendation of an aviation safety and security commission, headed by Vice Pres... | apositive_test_query5_00002 | |
trying to make the trek from Somalia's northern coast across the sea to Yemen. And that is just an estimate, since nobody really knows how many boats, all of them grossly overloaded, attempt the trek from the shores of the remote Puntland region in northeastern Somalia. The only way to gauge the horrors is to count the... | negative_test_query5_00000 | |
discovery could affect the medical management of many women at high risk of breast cancer and could lead the way toward a new generation of drugs designed to protect people from a wide range of cancers. But women anxious about the threat of breast cancer would be wise to use caution in demanding access to tamoxifen. Th... | negative_test_query5_00001 | |
Resources, references and the back story behind the story. | negative_test_query5_00002 | |
Britain and Ireland produced a set of principles today to encourage peace negotiations on Northern Ireland, and Britain pledged to start talks with political representatives of the Irish Republican Army within three months if the I.R.A. renounced violence in the province. The declaration of principles, signed by Prime ... | negative_test_query5_00003 | |
insiders, not dissidents. Mr. Hu, 49, is a Communist Party member and a teacher at the Shanghai branch of the party's school system. His ambitions are modest: to be allowed to run for office as Chinese law says he can, and to urge the legislature to talk to people before passing laws that affect them. He even takes the... | apositive_test_query6_00000 | |
RICHARD HAYMAN and Arthur Adams plan to reinvent the wheel -- the paddle wheel, that is. By building paddle wheelers to ply the Hudson River daily from Manhattan to Albany, the two men hope to re-create an industry whose last whistle was heard more than a half-century ago. ''It looks old, but it will have modern marine... | apositive_test_query6_00001 | |
was delayed indefinitely. That section had to cross the Tibetan Plateau, survive extreme temperatures and stay fixed in the shifting permafrost of the highlands. The plan was revived in 2001, when it was promoted as a crucial element of the Communist Party's Go West campaign. Engineers designed bridges to span the most... | apositive_test_query6_00002 | |
these families, in their own homes and in groups small enough for conversation, to learn how others see what he has done and failed to do. The pedophile scandal in Boston, though gross and costly to the institution, reveals a much deeper, though separate, problem: the massive rift between the clergy and most Catholics ... | negative_test_query6_00000 | |
after the explosion. ''I want to walk away from it, and even leave this country,'' said Mr. Hutchinson, whose Unionist, or loyalist, camp wants Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain. ''It isn't worth fighting for any longer. This is not about children going to school any longer; this is about people hellbent on ca... | negative_test_query6_00001 | |
Floods' Cost to the Dutch Rivers are receding in Europe, but the halt in barge traffic has left economic disruption and fears that dikes may still crumble. Page 4. The Informal Candidate Appearing on the David Letterman show last night, Senator Bob Dole made it unofficial, again: he will run for President in 1996. Page... | negative_test_query6_00002 | |
While New York basks in the orange glow of ''The Gates'' in Central Park, some Colorado residents are idly wondering when the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude might turn their gaze back on them. In the ''artworks in progress'' section of the artists' Web site, www.christojeanneclaude.net, the only project listed besid... | negative_test_query6_00003 | |
"ripped door off freezer locked with hasp." Another read: "Bear tore car apart looking for remains of toasted cheese sandwich." In another report, an upcountry resident complained that a bear "bent the side of the trailer." Although black bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, last year a black bear attacked and ki... | apositive_test_query7_00000 | |
LEAD: Some residents of this remote gold-mining village are calling for a hunt to thin an aggressive population of hungry black bears that are searching out food at the local dump and in people's trash and freezers. Some residents of this remote gold-mining village are calling for a hunt to thin an aggressive populatio... | apositive_test_query7_00001 | |
Three months after canceling a bear hunt, the State Department of Environmental Protection received $850,000 in Gov. Jon S. Corzine's proposed budget for researching and initiating nonlethal methods of controlling the black bear population. The methods include bear-proofing garbage bins, expanding public education prog... | apositive_test_query7_00002 | |
they don't gang up on me." The captain, barefoot and wearing a white turban and sarong, makes his living trading in the ports in Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. He delivers bags of rice, sugar and grain to Somalia and carries out frankincense and myrrh, still used in incense and perfume. But as chaos has envelop... | negative_test_query7_00000 | |
gather for potluck dinners at the Masonic Lodge. ''As Latin America lowered its own barriers to trade and investment, its firms began to look at the world in a very different way,'' said Robert Pastor, vice president for international affairs at American University in Washington and a former adviser on Latin America to... | negative_test_query7_00001 | |
''A good fit upfront is paramount,'' Mr. Rapp said. ''My first goal is that she graduate in four years. If they can make that happen, it's worth the money.'' But finding a good fit is not only about money. ''They came to me, and said, 'Hey, what are you interested in, what do you want to do with your life?' '' said Kel... | negative_test_query7_00002 | |
The brains of highly intelligent children develop in a different pattern from those with more average abilities, researchers have found after analyzing a series of imaging scans collected over 17 years. The discovery, some experts expect, will help scientists understand intelligence in terms of the genes that foster it... | negative_test_query7_00003 | |
AS the chief mechanic of one of Cuba's many antiquated sugar mills, Noel Manuel Lopez Troncoso is a busy man. At the height of the country's vital sugar cane harvest, Mr. Lopez's team of repairmen at the mill, the Central Gregorio Manalich, on the outskirts of this town an hour east of Havana, must labor around the clo... | apositive_test_query8_00000 | |
the director of the Institute of Inter-American Studies at the University of Miami. The simple explanation is that the Soviet Union needs Cuba as much as Cuba needs its benefactor. For nearly 30 years, Cuba has provided the Soviet Union with a military and political foothold just off the coast of Florida. The Soviet Un... | apositive_test_query8_00001 | |
Under the Trading With the Enemy Act, it has been illegal since 1963 for any U.S. company to do business with Cuba. Yet Cargill Inc., a giant agricultural trader, is accused of arranging for the sale of Cuban sugar to Venezuela in 1988 through its Swiss subsidiary, Cargill International. But, as The Times's Dean Baquet... | apositive_test_query8_00002 | |
today. Dozens of economists from around the world, meeting here this week, meshed findings from 79 national and economic models to arrive at global predictions. They said world economic growth is expected to slow this year to 2.4 percent from 4 percent in 2002. Growth in the industrial market economies will slow, the e... | negative_test_query8_00000 | |
consider activities in their cars like talking on the phone, brushing their teeth or drinking coffee to be private behavior. "Even though most drivers are exposed, there is an assumption of being alone in private space," he said. Cindy Yorks, a freelance writer in Tustin, Calif., remembers the time she decided to catch... | negative_test_query8_00001 | |
To the Editor: While I agree with Nicholas D. Kristof that President Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief is ''a genuine and historic achievement'' (''When Prudishness Costs Lives,'' column, Dec. 19), he did not spell out the heart of the plan's prevention policy, the evidence-based A B C approach (abstinence; be fait... | negative_test_query8_00002 | |
her first concerns about her son's behavior. Jason was hyperactive, had difficulty sleeping and had trouble getting along with other children, she said. At school, he would crawl rather than walk to his desk. Despite his problems, Ms. Fredricks said she was told, ''He's just a boy,'' and ''he'll grow out of it.'' ''The... | negative_test_query8_00003 | |
A few weeks ago I attended question hour at the Australian Parliament, a raucous weekly event when the opposition questions the Prime Minister, Paul Keating. Mr. Keating was asked about France's claims that it was entitled to test its nuclear weapons in Polynesia because these colonies were actually part of France. His... | apositive_test_query9_00000 | |
To the Editor: I commend you for calling on the French President, Jacques Chirac, to show courage and statesmanship by canceling France's proposed nuclear tests in the South Pacific (editorial, July 5). His announcement has caused outrage in Australia and other South Pacific countries and is provoking a response from o... | apositive_test_query9_00001 | |
Ignoring majority opinion in his own country and protests around the world, France's new President, Jacques Chirac, has ended a three-year French moratorium on nuclear weapons tests by exploding a Hiroshima-size bomb under the South Pacific. This unjustified blast, and the five to seven expected to follow over the next... | apositive_test_query9_00002 | |
To the Editor: Re ''Pupils Prosper From an Investment'' (news article, Aug. 2): Not to rain on Merrill Lynch's parade -- it ought to be lauded for making college a financially viable option for hundreds of students -- but isn't it a sad commentary on our society that it takes such extraordinary efforts to make college ... | negative_test_query9_00000 | |
The day began as it always does in Mrs. Wetherbee's third-grade class at Willow Creek Elementary School, and it proceeded routinely, from the Pledge of Allegiance through reading, writing exercises, math, science, geography and phys ed. But the class itself was unusual in a striking way: Nine-year-old Diamond Forbes is... | negative_test_query9_00001 | |
between. ''What about the guy who comes in and fixes the coffee machine?'' Mr. Kosters wondered. What about computer technicians? ''Does it depend on whether he fixes hardware or software?'' he asked. The Government reports quarterly on compensation of various occupations, dividing them into three categories -- white c... | negative_test_query9_00002 | |
To the Editor: Your Feb. 2 editorial ''Return the Parthenon Marbles'' is eloquent testimony to the need for Britain and the British Museum to consider returning the historical treasures of the Parthenon to Greece in time for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Not mentioned, however, is that Greece not only can preserve and disp... | negative_test_query9_00003 | |
The good news: Unique Tire Recycling of British Columbia is gearing up to recycle almost 900,000 tires a year. Its new facility in Kamloops will digest some tires into crude oil, steel and carbon black to be sold as raw materials. The company already flattens and links truck and bus tires together in portable, artifici... | apositive_test_query10_00000 | |
fuel from old tires, and if so how? A. Several recycling companies have developed procedures for turning scrap tires into high-energy fuel for use in generating electricity. For example, Waste Recovery Inc. of Dallas shreads worn out tires into small pieces about two inches square. Q. Is it possible to make fuel from o... | apositive_test_query10_00001 | |
doctors have long debated whether expectant mothers should wear them at all. Trying to reconcile the need for belts with the risk of potentially injuring a fetus, Dr. Ethel Grene has patented a safety restraint that straps around a woman's thighs and chest. "It's a question of preventing the lap belt from riding up and... | apositive_test_query10_00002 | |
Northern Ireland's rival parties exchanged unusually conciliatory statements and pledges today, raising expectations of an imminent break in the stalemate blocking progress in their peace agreement. In a long-conflicted corner of northern Europe where politics is normally articulated in snubs and taunts, the companion ... | negative_test_query10_00000 | |
To the Editor: Robert L. Park (Op-Ed, Nov. 13) distorts the facts in his claim that a report from the National Academy of Sciences puts the debate over electromagnetic fields and health to rest. As members of the committee that wrote the report, we concluded that there is a small (1.5-fold) and valid excess of childhoo... | negative_test_query10_00001 | |
better off to stay together as a global firm,'' Mr. Robertson said. ''We do a lot of business through the global network.'' Partners in some European countries are considering going their own way. ''We are looking at a lot of alternatives, one of which is speaking with Deloitte, or KPMG or others,'' said Eves Van Durme... | negative_test_query10_00002 | |
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was ousted in a violent military coup that claimed 26 lives. President Aristide was arrested and taken to the airport to be deported to France. Page A1 Ethnic strains in Yugoslavia are tearing at the one remaining federal institution, the armed forces. With ... | negative_test_query10_00003 | |
which fears that oil revenue can be used by Iraq to develop nuclear, chemical or biological arms, Iraq continues to send oil illegally by pipeline to Syria and by truck to Turkey. But the combination of Australian bravado, advanced United States military technology and indirect Iranian cooperation has enabled Washingto... | apositive_test_query11_00000 | |
3 Danes, 2 Britons, 2 Norwegians, 1 Moroccan, 1 Swiss and 1 Swede. The nationalities of the other three were not known. No passenger list has been made available. [ Reuters quoted the Athens radio as saying that 78 people, most of them American, French and Swedish vacationers, were wounded when the gunmen opened fire. ... | apositive_test_query11_00001 | |
coast with 400 people on board. When the terrorists received no response to their demands they executed Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish passenger from New York City. The youngest of the hijackers shot Mr. Klinghoffer in the head and back as the American, who had suffered two earlier strokes, sat in his wheelchai... | apositive_test_query11_00002 | |
long overdue. But many developers believe that what the region needs now that there is a slump is not more, but fewer, planning constraints. ''The real estate sector has already been pummeled by public policy,'' said Pat O'Keefe, executive director of the New Jersey Builders Association. ''The question is no longer man... | negative_test_query11_00000 | |
As the 10th anniversary of President Francois Mitterrand's election approaches, the greatest fear of France's governing Socialists is that it will revive the cry "Ten Years Are Enough!" which so undermined de Gaulle more than two decades ago. There are, they concede, ample reasons for discontent, not the least of which... | negative_test_query11_00001 | |
Marin Karmitz, a leading French movie producer, has a simple theory about how the United States, through Hollywood, wants to fashion the way the world thinks. "Of course the U.S. movie industry is a big business," he says, "but behind the industrial aspect, there is also an ideological one. Sound and pictures have alwa... | negative_test_query11_00002 | |
After the Irish Republican Army's decision last week to end its guerrilla war against Britain, Northern Ireland's political parties began a series of meetings with the British authorities who manage the province in the hope of resuscitating its local government. But the hard-line Democratic Unionists, Ulster's largest ... | negative_test_query11_00003 | |
People's Liberation Army, American officials said. (AP) INDIA: CHRISTIANS ATTACKED A new spate of hate attacks against Christians has seized India this week with the killing of a Catholic priest and bomb attacks against four churches. No arrests have been made. Barry Bearak (NYT) PAKISTAN: SHARIF BOYCOTT Lawyers for th... | apositive_test_query12_00000 | |
discussion has reached a very concrete point,'' said Giacomino Granchi, the Socialist Mayor of Pisa, speaking in the 14th-century Town Hall, across the Arno River from the tower. ''Even if the Government is proceeding very cautiously.'' In 1965, after a drop in Pisa's water table caused the tilt to accelerate, a specia... | apositive_test_query12_00001 |
Human evaluation subset of Core17 instruction retrieval dataset for reranking evaluation.
| Task category | t2t |
| Domains | News, Written |
| Reference | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15246 |
Source datasets:
You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:
import mteb
task = mteb.get_task("HUMECore17InstructionReranking")
evaluator = mteb.MTEB([task])
model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
evaluator.run(model)
To learn more about how to run models on mteb task check out the GitHub repository.
If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as mteb, as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the MMTEB Contribution.
@misc{weller2024followir,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Orion Weller and Benjamin Chang and Sean MacAvaney and Kyle Lo and Arman Cohan and Benjamin Van Durme and Dawn Lawrie and Luca Soldaini},
eprint = {2403.15246},
primaryclass = {cs.IR},
title = {FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions},
year = {2024},
}
@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
publisher = {arXiv},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
year={2025},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}
@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Loïc and Reimers, Nils},
title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
publisher = {arXiv},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
year = {2022}
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}
The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:
import mteb
task = mteb.get_task("HUMECore17InstructionReranking")
desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats
{}
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