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Message Understanding Conference-6: a brief history

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Grishman, Ralph, Sundheim, Beth·1996·Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics -

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We have recently completed the sixth in a series of "Message Understanding Conferences" which are designed to promote and evaluate research in information extraction. MUC-6 introduced several innovations over prior MUCs, most notably in the range of different tasks for which evaluations were conducted. We describe some of the motivations for the new format and briefly discuss some of the results of the evaluations.

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Authors
Grishman, R., & Sundheim, B.
Affiliations
New York University (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics -
Published
1996
Volume
1
Pages
466
ISSN
1525-2477 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2068882115
Cited by
1,408
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conference abstract
Language
en
Open access
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International Conference on Computational Linguistics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
Keywords
MUC6, information extraction, benchmark tasks, natural language processing evaluation

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