Message Understanding Conference

The Message Understanding Conference was a series of Natural Language Processing Benchmark Tasks that focused on shallow Semantic Analysis of small text documents. Subtasks included Named Entity Recognition, Coreference Resolution, Relation Detection and Information Extraction.

• AKA: MUC
• Context:
  • Its associated conferences occurred from 1987 through 1995
  • It was sponsored by DARPA.
    • for a set of predefined fields in a template corresponding to some desired information relationship from a set of documents.
  • Its Template Filling Task involved Complex Semantic Relations.
  • It can include an ACE Performance Metric definition.
  • It is associated with a MUC Benchmark Task: MUC-7 Task, MUC-6 Task, MUC-5 Task, MUC-4 Task.
• Example(s):
  • MUC-7, topic: Joint Ventures.
  • MUC-6, topic: Management Succession.
  • MUC-5, topic: Joint Ventures.
  • MUC-4, topic: Terrorism.
• See: ACE Program, SemEval, TIPSTER, Information Extraction Task, Named Entity Recognition, MUC-Style Annotation.

References

1999

• (Appelt and Israel, 1999) => Douglas E. Appelt and D. J. Israel. (1999). "Introduction to Information Extraction Technology. A Tutorial Prepared for IJCAI-99.

1998

• (Chinchor, 1998) => N. A. Chinchor. (1998). "Overview of MUC-7/MET-2." In: Proceedings of the Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-7).
• (Marsh and Perzanowski, 1998) => E. Marsh and D. Perzanowski. (1998). "MUC-7 Evaluation of IE Technology:Overview of Results. Presentation at the MUC-7 Conference.

1996

• (Grishman and Sundheim, 1996) => R. Grishman and B. Sundheim. (1996). "Message Understanding Conference - 6: A Brief History." In: Proceedings of COLING-1996.

1995

• Sundheim, B. (Ed.), (1995). Proceedings of the Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6). ARPA, Morgan Kaufmann, Columbia, MD.

1993

• (Riloff, 1993) => Ellen Riloff (1993). "Automatically Constructing a Dictionary for Information Extraction Tasks." In: Proceedings of AAAI-93.