TIPSTER Information Extraction Evaluation: The MUC-7 Workshop
Abstract
The last of the "Message Understanding Conferences", which were designed to evaluate text extraction systems, was held in April 1998 in Fairfax, Virginia. The workshop was co-chaired by Elaine Marsh and Ralph Grishman. A group of 18 organizations, both from the United States and abroad, participated in the evaluation. MUC-7 introduced a wider set of tasks with larger sets of training and formal data than previous MUCs. Results showed that while performance on the named entity and template elements task remains relatively high, additional research is still necessary for improved performance on more difficult tasks such as coreference resolution and domain-specific template generation from textual sources.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA631147
Entities
People
- Elaine Marsh
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory