SRA: Description of the Solomon System as Used for MUC-5
Abstract
SRA used a language-independent, domain-independent, multipurpose text understanding system as the core of the MUC-5 system for extraction from English and Japanese joint venture texts, SRA 's NLP core system, SOLOMON, has been under development since 1986. It has been used for a variety of domains, and was aimed from the start to be language-independent, domain-independent, and application-independent. More recently, SOLOMON has been extended to be multilingual, beginning with Spanish in 1990 and Japanese in 1991 The Spanish-Japanese text understanding system that uses SOLOMON was developed for a domain very different from the MUC-5 joint venture domain ( cf. Aone, et aL [2]), SOLOMON's principal applications have been in data extraction, but it is also used in a prototype machine translation system {cf. Aone and McKee [5]). The domain areas in which SOLOMON applications have been developed are: financial, terrorism, medical, and the MUC-5 joint-venture domain. SRA has significantly enhanced its capability to add new domains and languages by developing new strategies for data acquisition using both statistical techniques and a variety of user-friendly tools.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA636149
Entities
People
- Chinatsu Aone
- Doug Mckee
- Paul Krause
- Sharon Flank