1996 MUC6ABriefHistory

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Subject Headings: Named Entity Recognition, Message Understanding Conference, MUC-6.

Notes

  • Reviews one of the more commonly evaluated NER datasets: MUC-6.
  • The MUC evaluations introduced the first set of named entities.
  • MUCs concentrated on business and military related names and numerical expressions.

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Abstract

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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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
1996 MUC6ABriefHistoryRalph Grishman
Beth Sundheim
Message Understanding Conference - 6: A Brief HistoryProceedings of COLING Conferencehttp://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/muc/muc6-history-coling.ps1996