Joseph Rosenzweig
Breck Baldwin and Jeff Reynar informally began the University of Pennsylvania's MUC-6 coreference effor t in January of 1995. For the first few months, tools were built and the system was extended at weekly 'hack sessions. ' As more people began attending these meetings and contributi...
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| Summary: | Breck Baldwin and Jeff Reynar informally began the University of Pennsylvania's MUC-6 coreference effor t in January of 1995. For the first few months, tools were built and the system was extended at weekly 'hack sessions. ' As more people began attending these meetings and contributing to the project, it grew to include eight graduate students. While the effort was still informal, Mark Wasson, from Lexis-Nexis, became an advisor to th e project. In July, the students proposed to the faculty that we formally participate in the coreference task. By that time, we had developed some of the system's infrastructure and had implemented a simplistic coreference resolution system which resolved proper nouns by means of string matching. After much convincing, the faculty agreed at th e end of July that we could formally participate in MUC-6. We then began an intensive effort with full-tim e participation from Baldwin and Reynar, and part-time efforts from the other authors. In August we were given permission from Yael Ravin of IBM's Information Retrieval group to use the IBM Name Extraction Module [3]. We were also given access to a large acronym dictionary which Peter Flynn maintains for a world wide web site in Iceland |
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