Joseph Rosenzweig

• Main Authors: Breck Baldwin, Jeff Reynar, Mike Collins, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Anoop Sarkar, Introductio N
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baldwin; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.330.9535; http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/acl/M/M95/M95-1015.pdf

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