Message Understanding Conference Proceedings
MUC-7 Table of Contents

Systems used on Multiple Tasks
Systems used on Information Extraction Tasks
Systems used on Named Entity Tasks
Systems used on Coreference Tasks
Appendices

PAPERS: OVERVIEW

Overview of MUC-7
N. Chinchor (Science Applications International Corporation)

MUC-7 Evaluation of IE Technology: Overview of Results
E. Marsh & D. Perzanowski (NRL)

Analyzing the Complexity of a Domain with Respect to an Information Extraction Task
A. Bagga (Duke University)
PDF file 171K

PS file 346K

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PAPERS: SYSTEMS - Used on Multiple Tasks (IE, NE and CO)

Description of the Oki System as Used for MUC-7
J. Fukumoto, F. Masui, M. Shimcheta, M. Saski (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.)
PDF File 101K

University of Durham: Description of the LOLITA system as Used in MUC-7
R. Garigliano, A. Urbanowicz, D. J. Nettleton (University of Durham)
PDF file 270K

PS file 858K

Using Collocation Statistics in Information Extraction
D. Lin (University of Manitoba)
PDF file 188K

PS file 295K

University of Sheffield: Description of the LaSIE-II System as Used for MUC-7
K. Humphreys, R. Gaizauskas, S. Azzam, C. Huyck, B. Mitchell, H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks (University of Sheffield)
PDF file 458K

PS file 3555K

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PAPERS: SYSTEMS - Information Extraction Tasks

American University in Cairo: Description of the American University in Cairo's System Used for MUC-7
C. Huyck (American University in Cairo)
PDF file 210K

PS file 321K

BBN: Description of the SIFT System as Used for MUC-7
S. Miller, M. Crystal, H. Fox, L. Ramshaw, R. Schwartz, R. Stone, R. Weischedel, and the Annotation Group (BBN Technologies)
PDF file 88K

Description of Lockheed Martin's NLToolset as Applied to MUC-7 (AATM7)
D. Brady, L. Childs, D. Cassel, B. Magee, N. Heintzelman, C. Weir (Lockheed Martin)
HTML file 187K

NYU: Description of the Proteus/PET System as Used for MUC-7 ST
R. Yangarber, R. Grishman (New York University)
PDF file 226K

PS file 1123K

SRA: Description of the IE2 System Used for MUC-7
C. Aone, L. Halverson, T. Hampton, M. Ramos-Santacruz (Systems Research and Applications)
PDF file 328K

PS file 7315K

TASC: Description of the TASC System Used for MUC-7
T. Patten, B. Hoffman, M. Thurn (TASC)
PDF file 78K

PS file 283K

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PAPERS: SYSTEMS - Named Entity Tasks

FACILE: Description of the NE System Used for MUC-7
W.J. Black, F. Rinaldi, D. Mowatt (UMIST)
PDF file 140K

PS file 62K

IsoQuest Inc.: Description of the NetOwl^TM Extractor System as Used for MUC-7
G. R. Krupka, K. Hausman (IsoQuest, Inc.)
PDF file 206K

PS file 663K

Description of the Kent Ridge Digital Labs System Used for MUC-7
Shihong Yu, Shuanhu Bai and Paul Wu (Kent Ridge Digital Labs)
PDF file 146K

PS file 108K

Description of the NTU System used for MET-2
H.-H. Chen, Y.-W. Ding, S.-C. Tsai, G.-W. Bian (National Taiwan University)
PDF file 354K

PS file 982K

NYU: Description of the MENE Named Entity System as Used in MUC-7
A. Borthwick, J. Sterling, E. Agichtein, R. Grishman (New York University)
PDF file 186K

PS file 295K

Description of the Japanese NE System Used for MET-2
S. Sekine (New York University)
PDF file 194K

PS file 83K

Description of the Oki System as Used for MET-2
Note: This paper requires the Japanese version of Adobe Acrobat. Some sections may not display properly on other versions of Acrobat.
J. Fukumoto, M. Shimohata, F. Masui, M. Saski (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.)
PDF File 109K

Description of the LTG System Used for MUC-7
A. Mikheev, C. Grover, M. Moens (University of Edinburgh)
PDF file 248K

PS file 164K

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PAPERS: SYSTEMS - Coreference Task

Description of the UPENN CAMP System as Used for Coreference
B. Baldwin, T. Morton, A. Bagga, J. Baldridge, R. Chandraseker, A. Dimitriadis, K. Snyder, M. Wolska (University of Pennsylvania)
PDF file 210K

PS file 365K

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APPENDICES:

Walk-Through Articles with Answer Keys

MUC-7 Test Scores Introduction
N. Chinchor (Science Applications International Corporation)
PDF file 28K

PS file 72K

MUC-7 Test Score Reports for all Participants and all Tasks

MUC-7 Statistical Significance Results

MUC-7 Information Extraction Task Definition (version 5.1)
N. Chinchor (Science Applications International Corporation), E. Marsh

MUC-7 Named Entity Task Definition (version 3.5)
N. Chinchor (Science Applications International Corporation), P. Robinson (The MITRE Corporation)

MUC-7 Coreference Task Definition (version 3.0)
L. Hirschman, N. Chinchor (Science Applications International Corporation)

The Message Understanding Conference Scoring Software User's Manual
A. Douthat (Science Applications International Corporation)

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