Table 1
Logic for Judgment Merging. When the system finds multiple pieces of evidence for any judgment, it weighs them against one another two by two, in document order. The method is part of the story-following aspect of the basic clinREAD system, which expects information to be given to the reader in a sequential format. Thus, the system sifts evidence by examining each piece to see if it can merge it into what it knows already. The knowledge engineers can tune the method to fit the type of text being processed; other controls are available for highly structured documents
| 1st Judgment | 2nd Judgment | Final Judgment |
| Strong non-U | Weak or normal non-U | Judgment 1 |
| Normal non-U | Weak non-U | Judgment 1 |
| Normal non-U | Strong non-U | Judgment 2 |
| Any strength Y | Any strength U | Y |
| Any strength N | Any strength U | N |
| Any strength Q | Any strength U | Q |
| Equal strength Y and Q | Y | |
| Equal strength Y and N | N | |
| Equal strength N and Q | N |
