Rating the Technicality of the Brown Corpus
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The Brown Corpus is a collection of 500 two-thousand-word texts built
in the 1960s as representative of American written language of that
time. The corpus constructors identified fifteen different genres,
broad types of text, on the basis of which they chose their samples.
Our goal here is to rate the _technicality_ of each of those genres,
and of a sample of documents, using your own view or intuition of
what is and what is not a technical text. There is no definition of
text technicality you can work with, except your own definition or
informal understanding.

Thirty Brown texts that we need rated are available on the Test Document
Collection (TDC) page at
    http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~clank/brownsummaries.html

Please read all texts and rate their technicality using the scale
shown later in these instructions. You may work on all texts in one
genre together, but it is not a requirement of this experiment.
(Genre is indicated by the alphabetic letter after the hyphen in a
text's title: 'br-c05' -> genre 'c'.)

Your rating can be carried to one decimal place. (This change from
the integer scale used in the original experiment is meant to allow
you to discriminate more exactly between the 30 texts in this
sample.) Feel free to use only the five integer values, or maybe
values 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 etc., if you think that 0.1 is too fine a
granularity.

The rating scale is as follows:

TECHNICAL   RATHER_TECHNICAL     NEUTRAL    RATHER_NON-TECH.  NON-TECHNICAL
   1.0             2.0             3.0             4.0             5.0
    |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|

Enter your ratings on the little form that follows, and email them to
Terry (terry@csi.uottawa.ca).

Thanks!!!

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br-a05, br-a44           a05: ________  a44: _______

br-b22                   b22: ________

br-c02, br-c05           c02: ________  c05: _______

br-d02, br-d05           d02: ________  d05: _______

br-e06, br-e29           e06: ________  e29: _______

br-f03, br-f20           f03: ________  f20: _______

br-g01, br-g32           g01: ________  g32: _______

br-h05, br-h30           h05: ________  h30: _______

br-j01, br-j13, br-j74   j01: ________  j13: _______  j74: _______

br-k02, br-k22           k02: ________  k22: _______

br-l02, br-l20           l02: ________  l20: _______

br-m02, br-m05           m02: ________  m05: _______

br-n01, br-n16           n01: ________  n16: _______

br-p01, br-p15           p01: ________  p15: _______

br-r01, br-r07           r01: ________  r07: _______